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"Warren, J. C."

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Warren, J. C. (detail)
   
1849
[Presentation of the stuffed skin and skeleton of an American manati.]
Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 3: 199. Nov. 21, 1849.
–Briefly notes the existence of two manatee species (Manatus Senegalensis and M. Americanus). Prof. [Louis] Agassiz remarked that "the skin was the only one of this animal in any scientific collection" [in America?], although some bones were in collections in Philadelphia and Charleston.

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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