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"Stejneger, Leonhard"

Stejneger, Leonhard: SEE ALSO Anonymous, 1883; Lucas, F. A., 1891; Scheffer, V. B., 1973; Steller, G. W., 1925. (detail)
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1883
Contributions to the history of the Commander Islands. No. 1. Notes on the natural history, including descriptions of new cetaceans.
Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 6(4-6): 58-89. June 20, 22, 23, 1883.
–Gives an account of collecting Hydrodamalis bones on Bering Island (59, 61-62); discusses individual and sexual variation in the skulls and mandibles (78-83); defends 1768 as the date of the sea cow's extermination (83-84); concludes that its geographic distribution included the Aleutians but probably not the northern Bering Sea (84). Lucien M. Turner's report (cited here) of sea cow bones in the Aleutians, and of an Aleutian vernacular name for the sea cow (kukh-sukh-tukh), was never published so far as I know; but see also F. W. True (1884b: 136). Notes the destruction of Hydrodamalis specimens by a fire in the Irkutsk museum (84); discusses the Kamchadal name kapustnik for the sea cow (85); and weighs the evidence concerning the shape of the animal's caudal fin (85-86).
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1884a
Contributions to the history of the Commander Islands. No. 2. Investigations relating to the date of the extermination of Steller's sea-cow.
Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 7(12): 181-189. July 29, 1884.
–Criticizes Nordenskiöld's (1881a) reports of Hydrodamalis alive at Bering Island after 1768. Includes detailed transcripts of Stejneger's interrogation of witnesses, and concludes that the report circa 1780 was due to a chronological error and that the report circa 1854 was based on a female narwhal.
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1884b
Ueberblick über meine Reise nach Kamtschatka und den Commander-Inseln (1882 und 1883).
Deutsche Geogr. Blätter 7(1): 106-108.
–Alludes to "twelve skulls and four series of vertebrae with arm bones, shoulder blades" and other bones of Hydrodamalis which he collected on Bering Island (107-108).
 
 
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1884c
Fra det yderste Østen. IV. Kapitlet om Berings-Øen i Nordenskiöld's "Vega-færden".
Naturen (Kristiania) 8(5): 65-69. May 1884.
–Sir. material ?also in other parts of this series of articles: 1882 (vol. 6): 69, 71?, 1883 (vol. 7): 111?, 1885 (vol. 9): 150-157?
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1885
Eine Umsegelung der Berings-Insel. Herbst 1882.
Deutsche Geogr. Blätter 8(3): 225-273. 2 figs. Pls. 5-6.
–Engl. transl. of sir. material: F.A. Lucas (1891: 626). Account of the excavation of a badly weathered Hydrodamalis skeleton (256-257).
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1886
On the extermination of the great northern sea-cow (Rytina). A reply to Professor A. E. Nordenskiöld.
Jour. [Bull.] Amer. Geogr. Soc. 18(4): 317-328.
–A reply to Nordenskiöld's (1885a, b) response to Stejneger's (1884a) criticisms of Nordenskiöld's (1881a) reports of Hydrodamalis alive at Bering Island after 1768.
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1887
How the great northern sea-cow (Rytina) became exterminated.
Amer. Naturalist 21(12): 1047-1054. Dec. 1887.
–A final refutation of Nordenskiöld's arguments for the survival of Hydrodamalis past 1768, backed up by statistics on sea-cow hunting in the Commander Islands. Hopefully the last word on the subject.
 
 
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1891
[Title?]
Proc. Geogr. Soc. Bremen.
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1893
Skeletons of Steller's sea-cow preserved in the various museums.
Science 21(523): 81. Feb. 10, 1893.
–Mentions several specimens overlooked by B. W. Evermann (1893).
 
 
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1897
The Russian fur-seal islands.
U.S. Fish. Comm. Bull. 16(1): 1-148. Pls. 1-66.
–Also issued separately, Washington, 1896. Also in Seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska (4 vols.), Vol. 4, Washington, 1898: 613-754. Rev.: Geogr. Jour. 9: 322-324, 1897? Steller's sea cow, 20.
 
 
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1936
Georg Wilhelm Steller: the pioneer of Alaskan natural history.
Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press: xxiv + 623. Frontisp. 1 fig. 29 pls.
–Repr.: Farnborough (England), Gregg Internatl. Publishers Ltd., 1970. The definitive biography of the discoverer of Hydrodamalis. Includes an appendix analyzing in detail the origin and variant versions of the eyewitness drawings of the sea cow (511-527), and a very detailed and annotated bibliography (565-599).
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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