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"Edwards, William H."

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 Edwards, William H. (detail)
   
1847
A voyage up the River Amazon.
New York, D. Appleton & Co.: 1-256. Illus.
–Describes the external appearance of an Amazonian manatee and the hunting and use of manatees by Indians (187-188, 1 fig.). The skull was given to a Dr. Morton, who recognized it as a species distinct from the West Indian manatee. Also mentions a manatee in captivity in Pará (= Belém), and two taken to New York by a Captain Appleton. A British ed. (London, John Murray: 1-210, 1847) has the identical material on pp. 149-150 but lacks the fig.
Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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