Booklet, On Dinornis
Maker
Owen, Richard
Production date
1846
Object detail
Brief Description
Booklet, On Dinornis.
XIII. On Dinornis. On Dinornis (Part II), containing descriptions of portions of the skull, sternum and other parts of the skeleton of the species previously determined, with osteological evidences of three additional species, and of a new genus, Palapteryx. By Professor Owen, FRS, ZS. Read 23 June 1846.
There are fifteen pages featuring prints of anatomical drawings.
On the first page is an inscription: To the Reverend William Colenso MA, with the author's best respects.
Inserted between pages 332 - 333 is a sheet of tracing paper onto which three sketches of bones have been attached and labelled:
1. anterior view
2. posterior view
3. internal
XIII. On Dinornis. On Dinornis (Part II), containing descriptions of portions of the skull, sternum and other parts of the skeleton of the species previously determined, with osteological evidences of three additional species, and of a new genus, Palapteryx. By Professor Owen, FRS, ZS. Read 23 June 1846.
There are fifteen pages featuring prints of anatomical drawings.
On the first page is an inscription: To the Reverend William Colenso MA, with the author's best respects.
Inserted between pages 332 - 333 is a sheet of tracing paper onto which three sketches of bones have been attached and labelled:
1. anterior view
2. posterior view
3. internal
Production date
1846
Production period
Media/Materials description
Grey coloured paper cover with paper pages printed in black ink, bound through spine by string.
Measurements
Length x Width: 317 x 254mm
Length x Width: 290 x 187mm
Length x Width: 290 x 187mm
Signature/Inscription
(2 x pencil sketches of birds head), Inscription, Handwritten
Kindly copied by Mr. H. Suter, Christchurch, August, 1892, Inscription, Handwritten
On / Dinornis: / from / Professor Owen., Inscription, Handwritten
Kindly copied by Mr. H. Suter, Christchurch, August, 1892, Inscription, Handwritten
On / Dinornis: / from / Professor Owen., Inscription, Handwritten
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject date
1839-1846
Other number(s)
67860
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