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"Nordenskiöld, Adolf"

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 Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik (detail)
   
1881a
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World. [Transl. by A. Leslie.]
London, Macmillan & Co. (2 vols.): Vol. 1: xxv + 524; Vol. 2: xvii + 646 [464?]. Figs. Maps.
–This was the first Engl. ed.; original ed. in Swedish, 1880. American ed., New York, Macmillan: xxvi + 756, 1882. German eds., Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna, 1882; St. Petersburg, 1883. Extract: Korresp.-Bl. Deutsch. Ges. Anthrop. 13: 20-21, 30-32, 39, 1 fig., 1882?
  Gen. acc. of Steller's sea cow and the history of its hunting (2: 272-276); reports of live sea cows at Bering Island ca. 1780 and 1854 (276-278); account of collecting sea cow bones (278, 280); mention of the natives' use of sea cow ribs for making sledge runners and carvings (280); and mention of the abundance of seaweed at Bering Is. (292). The figs. include illustrations of the Stockholm skeleton of Hydrodamalis (279), reconstructions of the animal by earlier authors (279, 280), and a frond of the alga Thalassiophyllum clathrus (293). See also E.H. Yarnall (1879).
  Nordenskiöld's claim in this work that the sea cow survived into the nineteenth century led to several years of dispute between himself (see also Nordenskiöld, 1885b) and L. Stejneger (1884, 1886, 1887). The issue was eventually settled in Stejneger's favor by the paucity and weakness of evidence for sightings after 1768.
 
 
 Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik (detail)
   
1881b
Ein Besuch auf der Bering-Insel.
Petermann's Geogr. Mitt. 27: 26-30.
–?Review: D. Ausland 1881: 86-89?
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 Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik (detail)
   
1885a
Bemötande af anmärkningar, som riktats mot min skildring af Vegas färd kring Asien och Europa.
Ymer (Stockholm, Swedish Soc. Anthrop. Geogr.) 5: 246-267.
–Engl. transl.: Nordenskiöld (1885b).
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 Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik (detail)
   
1885b
Reply to criticisms upon "The voyage of the Vega around Asia and Europe".
Jour. [Bull.] Amer. Geogr. Soc. 17: 267-298. 2 maps.
–Transl. of Nordenskiöld (1885a) by V. A. Elfwing. Replies to Stejneger's (1884) criticisms of Nordenskiöld's (1881a) reports of Steller's sea cow alive at Bering Island after 1768 (280-284). States that the bones he collected were distributed to the museums at Uppsala, Gothenburg, Lund, and principally Stockholm (284-285). Those deposited in Stockholm are said to have included a metacarpal, but this was actually the transverse process of a sacral vertebra (Domning, 1978b: 97-98, pl. 17).
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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