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"Wilder, Burt Green"

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Wilder, Burt Green (detail)
   
1875
On a foetal manatee and cetacean, with remarks on the affinities and ancestry of the Sirenia.
Amer. Jour. Sci. (3)10: 105-114. Pl. 8.
–Describes the "smallest foetal sirenian on record", a T. inunguis from Peru 55 mm long (105-106, 108-109, 112-114), and reviews ideas on sir. affinities (107-113); concludes they are ungulates. See also Wilder (1908).
 
 
Wilder, Burt Green (detail)
   
1905
Notes and queries as to: (a) the cerebral commissures of the elephant shrew Macroscelides; (b) brain and heart of a manatee, and what is believed to be the smallest known sirenian fetus; (c) the brains of various fishes, including the rare Japanese shark, Mitsukurina; (d) the swallowing of a young alligator by a frog.
Science (n.s.) 21: 268-269.
–Refers to the same fetus described by Wilder (1875).
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Wilder, Burt Green (detail)
   
1907
[Manatee embryo.]
Amer. Naturalist 41(490): 663. Oct. 1907.
–P. 663 (in "Scientific Exhibits at the Seventh International Zoological Congress"): {{"Professor Wilder showed the 'smallest known embryo of the manatee,' - a specimen approximately an inch and a half long."}} See also Wilder (1908).
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Wilder, Burt Green (detail)
   
1908
The length of the smallest known sirenian fetus; gyre preferred to "convolution".
Science (n.s.) 27(699): 825. May 22, 1908.
–Corrects the statement in Wilder (1907); the fetus was actually 53 mm or about 2-1/8 inches long, having shrunk about 2 mm since the report in Wilder (1875).

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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