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"Stewart, Charles"

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1801
Elements of natural history; being an introduction to the Systema Naturae of Linnaeus....
London, T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies; Edinburgh, Wm. Creech (2 vols.): Vol. 1: iv + 408. 6 pls.
–Places "Trichechus manatus" in the same genus with the walrus; recognizes 2 subspecies, "Australis" and "Borealis", corresponding respectively to Trichechus and Hydrodamalis. It is "Said to delight in music" and to bellow like a bull. "The carcase of one of these animals was about sixteen years ago [i.e., 1785] thrown ashore near Leith [on the North Sea coast of Scotland, near Edinburgh on the Firth of Forth]. It was much disfigured; and the Fishermen extracted its liver and other parts, from which a considerable quantity of oil was obtained" (85).
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1817
Elements of the natural history of the animal kingdom....
Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute; London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown (2 vols.): Vol. 1: vi + 446. 6 pls.
–"Second Edition"; sir. material almost identical to that in the 1801 ed. Specifies 1785 as the year of the Leith stranding (125).
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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