Bibliography Record

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Owen, Richard (detail)
   
1849
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.

Related Index Records (2)

Halicore indica (Boddaert, 1785) Desmarest, 1822
(= Dugong dugon)
  x 1849 Owen, R. ("Halicore indicus"; forelimb adapted as fin; m5-6.)

Skeleton
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
  x 1849 Owen, R. ("Halicore indicus"; forelimb adapted as fin; m5-6.)


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