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"Harlan, Richard"

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1824
On a species of lamantin resembling the Manatus Senegalensis (Cuvier) inhabiting the coast of East Florida.
Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 3(2): 390-394. Pl. 13. May 1824 (read Mar. 30, 1824).
–Allen 643. Abstrs.: Edinb. Jour. Sci. 2: 186, 1825 (Allen 658); A.G. Desmarest, Férussac's Bull. Sci. Nat. 4: 106-108, 1825 (Allen 656). ?Repr.: Harlan (1835: 68-71). On the basis of "two skulls, two ribs, and a strip of skin," provisionally proposes the name Manatus latirostris for the Florida manatee, in case external differences should be found sufficient to separate it from M. senegalensis! Harlan's specimens were collected by a Dr. Burrows (or Burroughs; see K. F. Koopman, 1976) "on the Coast of East Florida, in the year 1822." Harlan also quotes from Burrows a few lines of information "obtained from the natives" concerning the manatee (392).
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1825a
Fauna Americana: being a description of the mammiferous animals inhabiting North America.
Philadelphia, Anthony Finley: x + 11-320.
–Allen 659. A revised version appeared in Harlan (1835: 78-83?). Describes Manatus latirostris and Stellerus borealis (274-281).
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1825b
Notice of the Plesiosaurus and other fossil reliquiae, from the State of New Jersey.
Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 4(2): 232-236. Pl. 14. Read Sept. 7, 1824.
–P. 236: {"There is also deposited in the Cabinet of the Academy, from the western shore of Maryland, a cervical and a caudal vertebra of a gigantic species of fossil Manatus; the vertical diameter of the former is nine inches and a half; the transverse diameter eleven inches. A fossil rib of the Manatus, was also discovered by Mr. Finch, at the same locality."} These remains were the basis for "Manatus giganteus" DeKay, 1842; however, at least the vertebrae were cetacean rather than sirenian (see Kellogg, 1966: 66). The rib is presumably the specimen collected by Finch (1833: 229); its correct locality, however, was Stratford, Virginia (see also Dooley, 2005: 32).
 
 
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1834
Critical notices of various organic remains hitherto discovered in North America.
Trans. Geol. Soc. Pennsylvania 1(1): 46-112. Aug. 1834.
–Allen 820. Repr.: Harlan (1835: 253-313). ?Abstr. in James. Edinb. N. Phil. Jour. 17: 342-362, 1834? Abstr.: Neues Jahrb. Min. 1836: 99-109 (Allen 896; in German; Manatus, 104). Mention of Manatus, 73 (278 in 1835 repr.).
 
 
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1835
Medical and physical researches: or original memoirs in medicine, surgery, physiology, geology, zoology, and comparative anatomy.
Philadelphia, printed by Lydia R. Bailey: xxxix + 9-653. 160 figs.
–Allen 852. Reprints Harlan's earlier works, including the following: 1824 (68-71), 1825a (78-83; revised), 1834 (253-313). (382-385?)
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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