Stewart, Charles

2 publications

Stewart, Charles (detail)
1801Elements of natural history; being an introduction to the Systema Naturae of Linnaeus....
London, T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies; Edinburgh, Wm. Creech (2 vols.): Vol. 1: iv + 408. 6 pls.
—Places "Trichechus manatus" in the same genus with the walrus; recognizes 2 subspecies, "Australis" and "Borealis", corresponding respectively to Trichechus and Hydrodamalis. It is "Said to delight in music" and to bellow like a bull. "The carcase of one of these animals was about sixteen years ago [i.e., 1785] thrown ashore near Leith [on the North Sea coast of Scotland, near Edinburgh on the Firth of Forth]. It was much disfigured; and the Fishermen extracted its liver and other parts, from which a considerable quantity of oil was obtained" (85).
Stewart, Charles (detail)
1817Elements of the natural history of the animal kingdom....
Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute; London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown (2 vols.): Vol. 1: vi + 446. 6 pls.
—"Second Edition"; sir. material almost identical to that in the 1801 ed. Specifies 1785 as the year of the Leith stranding (125).