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x Gosse, Philip Henry; Hill, Richard
  1851
A naturalist's sojourn in Jamaica.
London, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans: [v]-xxiv + 508. Frontisp. 7 pls.
–Additional notice by Gosse in Hardwicke's Science-Gossip 12(136): 88, 1876. Observations of manatees in Jamaica (341-346, 348-349) and Haiti (346-347), with measurements, details of appearance, and past prices in Jamaican meat markets. Quotes Purchas on a tame manatee once kept by natives of Hispaniola (347-348).

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Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
x  1851Gosse, P.H. (TM; Hispaniola; 347-348.)
Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
x  1851Gosse, P.H. (TMM; Jamaica; meat; 345, 348-349.)
Haiti
x  1851Gosse, P.H. (TMM; 346-347.)
Jamaica
x  1851Gosse, P.H. (TMM; 341-346, 348-349.)
Manatus americanus (Link, 1795) Illiger, 1815
x  1851Gosse, P.H. (Jamaica, 341-346, 348-349; Haiti, 346-347.)
Respiratory System
x  1851Gosse & Hill (TMM; nostrils; 342-343.)