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"Luke, H. C."

 
 
 Luke, H. C. (detail)
   
1925
A bibliography of Sierra Leone.
Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press.
–Records an extract from A visit of General Edward Fenton, August 1582, written by Luke Ward, Vice-Admiral, which states "Much interest was excited by the capture of a sea calfe with haire and lympits and barnacles upon him." According to Grubb et al. (1998), this is the oldest record of the manatee in Sierra Leone.
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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