Shaw, George

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Shaw, George (detail)
1800General zoology or systematic natural history.... Vol. I. Part 1. Mammalia.
London, G. Kearsley: xiii + 248. 70 pls.
—Allen 461 (the second of two items erroneously given this number). The whole work comprises 14 vols, 1800-26. Trichechus (including the Sirenia + the walrus), 233-248; T. Dugong, 239; T. Borealis (mainly = Rhytina borealis), 240-244; T. Australis, 244-245, pl. 69; T. Manatus (including as "varieties" T. Clusii from the West Indies and T. Amazonius from South America), 245-248; and T.? Hydropithechus, Steller's "sea-ape". Allen says "The history of the Sirenia ... is ... purely a compilation."