Bibliography Record

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Fleming, John (detail)
   
1828
A history of British animals.
Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute; London, Duncan: xxiii + 565.
–Ed. 2 (London, Duncan & Malcolm, 1842) identical. Gives account of a "Manatus borealis" stranded at Newhaven, near Leith, Scotland, in 1785, fide Stewart, 1817 (29). Fleming confounds Trichechus and Hydrodamalis in his description, also mentioning Fabricius' specimen, but then goes on (30) to distinguish "Manatus" from "Rytina". Also recounts (30) the story of a "mermaid" captured in 1823; the source is cited as Edinburgh Magazine, Sept. 1823: 346, but the incident is evidently the same one described in Anon. (1829).

Related Index Records (4)

Britain
  x 1828 Fleming, J. ("Manatus borealis"; Leith; 29.)

Greenland
  x 1828 Fleming, J. ("Manatus borealis"; based on Fabricius; 29.)

Manatus borealis (Gmelin, 1788) Link, 1795
(= Hydrodamalis gigas)
  x 1828 Fleming, J. ([= TM?] Britain; 29.)

Mermaid Legend
(SEE ALSO: Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Ri)
  x 1828 Fleming, J. (Britain; sirs. & mermaids; 30.)


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