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"Fleming, John"

 
 
 Fleming, John (detail)
   
1822
The philosophy of zoology; or a general view of the structure, functions, and classification of animals.
Edinburgh, Archibald Constable & Co.; London, Hurst, Robinson & Co.: 2 vols. (vol. 1: lii + 432, 5 pls.; vol. 2: 1-618).
–Recognizes a group called "Apoda", comprising the "Herbivora" and "Cetacea"; none of these is assigned an explicit rank. The "Herbivora" comprise Manatus, Halicora (unjustified emendation of Halicore Illiger), and Rytina (2:203-204). Repeats in a footnote Stewart's (1817) report of a manatee stranded in Scotland in 1785; see also the following item.
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 Fleming, John (detail)
   
1828
A history of British animals.
Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute; London, Duncan: xxiii + 565.
–Ed. 2 (London, Duncan & Malcolm, 1842) identical. Gives account of a "Manatus borealis" stranded at Newhaven, near Leith, Scotland, in 1785, fide Stewart, 1817 (29). Fleming confounds Trichechus and Hydrodamalis in his description, also mentioning Fabricius' specimen, but then goes on (30) to distinguish "Manatus" from "Rytina". Also recounts (30) the story of a "mermaid" captured in 1823; the source is cited as Edinburgh Magazine, Sept. 1823: 346, but the incident is evidently the same one described in Anon. (1829).
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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