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Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the physiological series of comparative anatomy contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Vol. 1.
London, printed by R. Taylor: xvi + 271.
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[On the anatomy of the dugong.]
Proc. Zool. Soc. London 6: 28-45. July 1838 (read Mar. 27, 1838).
–Allen 941. ?Summ.: Isis 1845: 364-367? Describes the digestive, circulatory, respiratory, urogenital, skeletal, and dental systems of the dugong, with comparisons to other sirs. and cetaceans; concludes that the two orders are not related. Includes tables of measurements.
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Fossil Marsupialia from the caves of Wellington Valley. In: T. L. Mitchell, Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia, with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales.
London, publ. by the author (Vol. 2: viii + 405. Illus.): 368-369.
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[On the Basilosaurus of Dr. Harlan.]
The Athenaeum (London) No. 585: 35-36. Jan. 12, 1839.
–Compares the teeth of the manatee and dugong with those of Basilosaurus (35), in support of the latter's mammalian identity.
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Entozoa. In: Todd, Cyclopaedia of anatomy and physiology.
Vol. 2: 111-144.
–Discusses the morphology of an "Ascaris" (= Paradujardinia) from the stomach of a dugong.
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Odontography; or, a treatise on the comparative anatomy of the teeth; their physiological relations, mode of development, and microscopic structure, in the vertebrated animals.
London, Hippolyte Bailliere; Paris, J. B. Baillière; Leipzig, T. O. Weigel (2 vols., text & atlas): xx + lxxiv + 655. Atlas: 1-37. 168 pls.
–Allen 1013. ?Extracts: Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bologna) (2)1: 76-80, 233-238, 314-318; 2: 153-160; 3: 70-80; (3)2: 266-282, 427-443; 4: 454-468; 8: 249-257? Sirs., 364-372; Atlas, 23-24, pls. 92-97: Halicore indicus, 364-371, pls. 92-95; Manatus americanus, 371, pl. 96; Halitherium brocchii, 372, pl. 97.
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A history of British fossil mammals, and birds.
London, J. Van Voorst: xlvi + 560. 237 figs.
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Notes on the characters of the skeleton of a dugong (Halicore Australis). Appendix IV in: J. Beete Jukes, Narrative of the surveying voyage of H.M.S. "Fly", commanded by Captain F. P. Blackwood, R.N., in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other islands of the Eastern Archipelago, during the years 1842-46: together with an excursion into the interior of the eastern part of Java.
London, T. & W. Boone (2 vols.): Vol. 2: 225, 323-328, pl. 27.
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On the nature of limbs. A discourse delivered on Friday, February 9, at an evening meeting of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
London, John Van Voorst: 1-119. 11 figs. 2 pls.
–Facsimile: R. Amundson (ed.), with preface and 4 introductory essays, Univ. Chicago Press, cii + 119, 2007.
Owen presents the dugong as an example of limbs in the form of fins (fig. 1, pp. 5-6). Amundson's essay ("Richard Owen and animal form", pp. xv-li) alludes to this on pp. xxx and xxxv.
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On the fossil skull of a mammal (Prorastomus sirenoïdes, Owen) from the island of Jamaica.
Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London 11: 541-543. 1 pl.
–Describes the new genus and species without expressing any opinion as to its age.
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Dr Vogel on the ajuh of Central Africa.
Edinburgh New Philos. Jour. (2)4(2): 345-346. Oct. 1856 (read Aug. 5-12, 1856); back of Smithsonian Inst. copy stamped "Oct. 14 1856."
–Repr.: Owen (1857b). French transl.: L'Institut 25(1208): 61-62, Feb. 25, 1857. Compares the "Ajuh" to Manatus Senegalensis and M. Americanus, and names it Manatus Vogelii, n.sp.
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On the characters, principles of division, and primary groups of the class Mammalia.
Jour. Linn. Soc. London 2: 1-37. 6 figs.
–?Repr.: Proc. Linn. Soc. London, Zool. 2: 1-37. 6 figs. Sirs., 26.
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Note on the ajuh of Dr. Vogel. In: Shaw, N., 1857 (q.v.).
Rept. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 26th Meeting (1856): 99-100.
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Palaeontology; or, a systematic summary of extinct animals and their geological relations.
Edinburgh, A. & C. Black: xv + 420. 142 figs.
–Ed. 2, 1861. Rev.: Lit. Gaz. (London) (n.s.) 4: 389-391. Sirs., 400?
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On the anatomy of vertebrates. II. Birds and mammals.
London, Longmans, Green: viii + 592. 3 tabs. 406 figs.
–Sirs., 193-194, 429, 436.
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On the anatomy of vertebrates. Vol. III. Mammals.
London, Longmans, Green, & Co.: x + 915. 614 figs.
–Rev.: Anthrop. Rev. 7: 252-259, 1869? Sirs., 195, 483, 521-522, 908.
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On fossil evidences of a sirenian mammal (Eotherium aegyptiacum, Owen) from the Nummulitic Eocene of the Mokattam Cliffs, near Cairo.
Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London 31(1)(121): 100-105. Pl. 3. https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.JGS.1875.031.01-04.05 Feb. 1, 1875.
–Describes Eotherium aegyptiacum, n.gen.n.sp., based on a natural cranial endocast, which he compares with the brains of other sirs. Also gives a brief synopsis of various European sirs.
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On Prorastomus sirenoides (Ow.). - Part II.
Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London 31: 559-567. Pls. 28-29.
–Rev.: Geol. Mag. (2)12(9): 422-423, Sept. 1875. Amplifies the 1855 description of P. sirenoides following further preparation of the type specimen; compares it with other sirs.; and discusses its possible mode of tooth replacement and its implications for an early common ancestry of sirs. and ungulates. On p. 560 he introduces, probably inadvertently, a new name (Halicore malayana) for the Recent dugong.
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