Hamilton, William John, Jr.

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Hamilton, William John, Jr. (detail)
1941Notes on some mammals of Lee County, Florida.
Amer. Midland Naturalist 25(3): 686-691. 1 fig. May 1941.
—Reports an additional manatee that was killed in the 1940 freeze described by Cahn (1940); discusses tooth replacement and possible seasonal migrations and breeding. Another "natural" death is reported but not further elaborated on (687, 690-691). Hamilton's obituary in Jour. Mamm. 73(3): 693-706, Aug. 21, 1992, adds that the manatee skull collected by his wife and illustrated here was removed from the decomposing carcass "while bobbing around in a small boat in the middle of the Caloosahatchee River" (695).