Research Catalog

Title

Memoir on the gorilla : (Troglodytes gorilla, Savage) / by Richard Owen.

Author

Owen, Richard, 1804-1892.

Publication

London : Printed by Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, 1865.

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Additional Authors

Taylor & Francis, printer.

Description

[2], 58 p., XII leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill.; 32.cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Uniform Title

Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.

Subjects

• Gorilla
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Genre/Form

Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• "The following work includes the substance, or portions, of the Contributions to the natural history of the anthropoid apes, nos. 6-8 printed in the fourth and fifth volumes of the 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London'."--Advertisement.
• "Description of the plates"--p. 52-58.
• Signatures: [pi]² A-G⁴.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "John Dickenson [sic] F.R.S. &c. &c. with the Author's respects." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Historical introduction -- Description of a young male gorilla, preserved in spirits -- Description of the adult male, female, and very young gorilla, from well-preserved dry skins -- Position of the Troglodytes gorilla in the order Quadrumana -- Position of the Troglodytes gorilla in the order Quadrumana as tested by cranial sections -- Affinities of the gorilla to fossil Quadrumana -- Food and habits of the gorila -- Brain-characters of the gorilla, and their zoological value -- Limb-characters of the gorilla, and their zoological value -- Classification of the Quadrumana -- Conclusion.

Call Number

Sc Rare+ 599-O (Owen, R. Memoir on the gorilla)

LCCN

31021279

OCLC

• 14835876
• NYPGR14835876-B

Author

Owen, Richard, 1804-1892.

Title

Memoir on the gorilla : (Troglodytes gorilla, Savage) / by Richard Owen.

Imprint

London : Printed by Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, 1865.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare+ 599-O (accession no. B594003) inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "John Dickenson [sic] F.R.S. &c. &c. with the Author's respects." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Taylor & Francis, printer.

Dickinson, John, 1782-1869, former owner.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Added Title

Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare+ 599-O (Owen, R. Memoir on the gorilla)