Harry, Robert Rees

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Harry, Robert Rees (detail)
1956"Eugenie" the dugong mermaid.
Pacific Discovery 9(1): 21-27. 5 figs. Jan.-Feb. 1956.
—Account of the procurement of "Eugenie" in the Palau Islands for the Steinhart Aquarium, San Francisco. Mentions that the dugong ate clams and sea cucumbers (22-24, 27). A postscript by the editor (Don Greame Kelley) describes its subsequent death from pneumonia and gangrene on Dec. 27, 1955 (27).