Dimock, Anthony W.

5 publications

Dimock, Anthony W. (detail)
c. 1910?Dick in the Everglades.
Peekamose (New York), A. W. Dimock. 32 figs.
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Dimock, Anthony W. (detail)
1907The art of catching the manatee.
Century Mag. 73 (= n.s. 51): 848-853. 4 figs. Apr. 1907.
—Account of attempts to capture a Florida manatee for the New York Aquarium. See also C.H. Townsend (1907).
Dimock, Anthony W. (detail)
1908Big game hunting at sea: hunting the manatee.
Illus. London News (5)11: 333-334. figs.
—Account of the capture of an adult and baby T. manatus for the New York Aquarium.
Dimock, Anthony W. (detail)
1909Capturing a manatee.
Recreation 29: 163-168. Apr. 1909.
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Dimock, Anthony W.; Dimock, Julian A. (detail)
1909Florida enchantments.
London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1-318. Illus.
—Earlier ed.: New York, The Outing Publ. Co., 1908. Revised eds. (by A. W. Dimock; photographs by J. A. Dimock): Peekamose (New York), A. W. Dimock, 1915 (x + 338); New York, Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1926. Contains material republished from a variety of magazines. Chap. 3, "The capture of the manatee", is on pp. 29-59 of the 1908 ed., and on pp. 39-59 of the 1915 ed., with 7 figs. and a cover photo. It tells the story of capturing 3 manatees for the New York Aquarium and photographing a fourth. The first animal, a large, pregnant female, died in the course of capture; the other two captives survived for some time at the Aquarium (see also Townsend, 1907). A short article by Nina J. Root on the work of this father-and-son writer-photographer team appeared in Nat. Hist. 105(8): 78-81, Aug. 1996.