Bibliography Record

 
 
Latimer, George W. (detail)
   
1864
Letter offering to forward manatees for the Society's menagerie.
Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864(2): 167-168. Nov. 1864.
–Concerns two specimens captured at St. Johns, Puerto Rico. According to Antonio A. Mignucci Giannoni (unpubl. M.A. thesis, Univ. of Rhode Island, 1989), Latimer was Austrian Consul to Puerto Rico, and the manatees were also offered to Central Park in New York City but never arrived there. See also P.L. Sclater (1866).

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