The Dodologist's Miscellany. Links
Links to Books and Articles on the Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) and the Solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria)
Buffon, G.-L. L. 1770 Histore Naturelle des Oiseaux, A Paris, de l’Imprimerie Royale. Tome Premier (= Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière, Avec la Description du Cabinet du Roi, Tome Seizième). pp.44, 46, 184, 395, 401, 480-484, 485-496.
Chubb, E. C. 1919 A Skeleton of the Dodo (Didus ineptus), Annals of the Durban Museum, vol.ii, part 3, pp.97-99, pl.xvii. [or here]
Clusius, C. 1605 Caroli Clvsii Atrebatis, Aulæ Cæsareæ quondam Familiaris, Exoticorvm Libri Decem: Quibus Animalium, Plantarum, Aromaticum, aliorumque peregrinorum Fructuum historiæ describuntur, [Leiden:] Ex Officinâ Plantinianâ Raphelengii. pp.99, 100, 101.
Dixon, C. 1898 Lost and Vanishing Birds. Being a Record of some Remarkable Extinct Species and a Plea for some Threatened Forms, London: John Macqueen. pp.215-225. [available online here and here]
Herbert, T. 1634 A Relation Of Some Yeares Travaile, Begvnne Anno 1626. Into Afrique and the greater Asia, especially the Territories of the Persian Monarchie:and some parts of the Orientall Indies and Iles adiacent, London, Printed by William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome. There is also an engraved title page reading: “A Discription Of The Persian Monarchy Now beinge : The Orientall Indyes. Iles, & other parts of the Greater Asia, and Africk”. pp.207, 211, 212.
Hermann, J. 1783 Tabula Affinitatum Animalium olim Academico Specimine Edita nunc Uberiore Commentario Illustrata cum Annotationibus ad Historiam Naturalem Animalium Augendam Facientibus, Argentorati. Impensis Joh. Georgii Treuttel, Bibliopolæ. pp.132, 163.
Hume, J. P. & Cheke, A. S. 2004 The white dodo of Réunion Island: unravelling a scientific and historical myth, Archives of natural history, 31 (1), pp.57-79, figs.1-8. [text without figures] [or here]
Hume, J. P., Cheke, A. S. & McOran-Campbell, A. 2009 How Owen ‘stole’ the Dodo: academic rivalry and disputed rights to a newly-discovered subfossil deposit in nineteenth century Mauritius, Historical Biology, vol. 21, nos. 1-2, pp.33-49. (March-June 2009). [or here]
Iwanow, A. 1958 An Indian picture of the Dodo, Journal für Ornithologie, 99, pp.438-440.
Jonstonus, J. 1650 Historiæ Naturalis De Auibvs Libri VI. Cum æneis figuris Iohannes Ionstonus Med: Doctor Concinnauit. Francofvrti ad Moenvm Impensà Matthæi Meriani. pp.176-177, Tab.56. [or here: pp.176-177, Tab.56]
Lankester, E. R. 1905 Extinct Animals, London: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd. pp.26, 27, 28.
Lucas, F. A. 1891 Animals Recently Extinct or Threatened with Extermination, as Represented in the Collections of the U. S. National Museum, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution [...] for the year ending June 30, 1889, pp. 631-636, pl.CI. [also available here]
Lüttschwager, J. 1961 Die Drontevögel. Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei 276. A. Ziemsen Verlag – Wittenberg Lutherstadt. [excerpt comprising pp.1-10, 48, 51]
Meijer, H. J. M., Gill, A., De Louw, P. G. B., Van Den Hoek Ostende, L. W., Hume, J. P. & Rijsdijk, K. F. 2012 Dodo remains from an in situ context from Mare aux Songes, Mauritius, Naturwissenschaften, volume 99, issue 3, pp.177-184 + electronic supplementary material.
Newton, E. & Clark, J. W. 1879 On the osteology of the solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria, Gmel.), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol.clxviii (extra volume), 438-451, pls.xliv-l. [also here: pls. xliv, xlv, xlvi, xlvii, xlviii, xlix, l]
Nieremberg, J. E. 1635 Maxime Peregrinae, Libris XVI. Distincta. In quibus rarissima Naturæ arcane, etiam astronomica, & ignota Indiarum animalia, quadrupeds, aues […] describuntur, Antverpiæ, ex Officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti. pp.231-232.
Olearius, A. 1666 Gottorffische Kunst-Cammer, Worinnen Allerhand ungemeine Sachen, So theils die Natur, theils künstliche hände hervor gebracht und bereitet. vor diesem Ausallen vier Theilen der Welt zusammen getragen. Jetzo beschrieben Durch Adam Olearium, Bibliothecarium und Antiquarium auff der Fürstl. Residentz Gottorf, Schleßwig in der Fürstl. Druckeren gedruckt durch Johan Holwein. p.23.
Olearius, A. 1674 Gottorffische Kunst-Kammer, Worinnen Allerhand ungemeine Sachen, So theils die Natur, theils künstliche hände hervor gebracht und bereitet. vor diesen Aus allen vier Theilen der Welt zusammen getragen, Und Vor einigen Jahren beschrieben, Auch mit behörigen Kupffen gezieret Durch Adam Olearium, Weil. Bibliothecarium und Antiquarium auff der Fürstl. Residentz Gottorff. Welchem zu Ende angefüget ist, des iktgedachtenseel. herzn Olearii Solsteinische Chronica, Auff Gottfriedt Schulzens Kosten. In dessen Buchladen zu Schleßwig solche zu finden ist. p.22, tab.13.
Olearius, A. 1696 Orientalische Reise-Beschreibung: Jürgen Andersen aus Schleswig, Der Anno Christi 1644 auß gezogen, und 1650 wieder kommen. Und Volquard Iversen Aus Hollstein, So Anno 1655 auß gezogen, und 1668 wieder angelanget […] Heraus gegeben Durch Adam Olearium, Der regierenden Fürstlichen Durchl. zu Schleswig Hollstein Bibliothecarium und Antiquarium. Mit dessen Notis, und etlicher Oerter Erklärungen, Hamburg. p.152.
Owen, R. 1879 Memoirs on the Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand; With an Appendix on those of England, Australia, Newfoundland, Mauritius, and Rodriguez, London: John van Voorst, 1 Paternoster Row. Vol.i. Text. Memoir on the Genus Palapteryx, with descriptions of additional remains and species of Dinornis, pl.xvi, fig.5. Supplement II. Memoir on the Extinct Wingless Ground-Dove, or Dodo, with a comparison of the skeletons of Didus ineptus and D. (Pezophaps) solitarius: pp.21-37, pls.i, ii, iii. Supplement III. Memoir on the Extinct Wingless Ground-Dove, or Solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria, Strickland): pp.38-48, pls.iv, v.
Rijsdijk, K. F., Hume, J. P., Bunnik, F., Florens, V., Baider, C., Shapiro, B., Van der Plicht, J., Janoo, A., Griffiths, O., Van den Hoek Ostende, Cremer, H., Vernimmen, De Louw, P. G. B., Bholahm, A., Saumtallym, S., Porch, N., Haile, J., Buckley, M., Collins, M. & Gittenberger, E. 2009 Mid-Holocene vertebrate bone Concentration-Lagerstätte on oceanic island Mauritius provides a window into the ecosystem of the dodo (Raphus cucullatus), Quaternary Science Reviews, 28: pp.14-24. [or here or here or here]
Roberts, D. L. & Solow, A. R. 2003 When did the dodo become extinct? Nature, vol.426, p.245, figure 1. (20th November 2003. brief communications). [or here]
Rookmaaker, L. C. 2010 Calendar of the Scientific Correspondence of Hugh Edwin Strickland in the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. [available online in two parts: here and here]
Salvadori, T. [A.] 1893 Catalogue of the Columbæ, or Pigeons, in the Collection of the British Museum, in Sharpe, R. B. (ed.) Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, Vol.XXI, London: Printed by order of the Trustees. Sold by Longmans & Co., 39 Paternoster Row [...] and at the British Museum (Natural History, Cromwell Road, S.W. pp.628-636. [also available online here and here]
Shapiro, B., Sibthorpe, D., Rambaut, A., Austin, J., Wragg, G. M., Bininda-Emonds, O. R. P., Lee, P. L. M. & Cooper, A. 2002 Flight of the Dodo, Science, vol.295, no.5560, p.1683, fig.1. (1 March 2002. Brevia). + online supplementary data.
Shaw, G. & Nodder, F. P. 1794 Vivarium Naturae sive rerum naturalium [...] icones ad ipsam naturam depictae et descriptæ. – The Naturalist’s Miscellany; or coloured figures of natural objects drawn and described immediately from nature, London: Fred. Polydore Nodder & Co. • The Head of the Dodo; Caput Didi: vol.5, pl.166.
Storer, R. W. 1970 Independent evolution of the Dodo and the Solitaire, The Auk, vol.87, no.2, pp.369-370. (April 4 1970). [available online here and here]
Strickland, H. E. & Melville, A. G. 1848 The Dodo and Its Kindred; or the History, Affinities, and Osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire, and other extinct birds of the islands Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Bourbon, Reeve, Benham and Reeve. [or here, here, here or here]
Garet, P. 1603 Letter from Pieter Garet to Carolus Clusius, received October 1603. Leiden University Library collection, shelfmark VUL 101 / Garet, P_005. Recto. [details here]
NHM dodo skeleton (NHMUK A729), 3-D image
Hunterian Museum, Glasgow specimens
AMNH SKEL 6258 documentation.
Sources:
Anthony Cheke: Cheke (2001), Cheke (2004), Cheke (2006), Hume & Cheke (2004), Hume et al. (2009), Witmer & Cheke (1991)
Beth Shapiro, Penn State Biology Department: Shapiro et al. (2002)
David Reilly: Kitchener (1993), Maddox (1993)
David Roberts: Roberts & Solow (2003)
Emmanuel Richon, Le musée du Dodo: Staub (1996)
The Extinction Website: Clark (1866), Dixon (1898), Forbes & Robinson (1900), Le Maout (1855), Newton (1869), Newton (1874), Newton (1890), Newton & Clark (1879), Rothschild (1919), Salvadori (1893)
Gallery Pangolin: Koenig et al. (2004)
Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France: Herbert (1634)
Google Books: Brandt (1848), Millies (1868), Strickland & Melville (1848)
Göttinger DigitalisierungsZentrum: Latham (1785), Shaw & Nodder (1794), Strickland & Melville (1848).
Hathi Trust Digital Library: Strickland & Melville (1848)
Internet Archive: Broderip (1853a, 1853b), Cabot (1847), Chubb (1919), Hamel (1848), Lucas (1891), Newton & Newton (1868), Newton & Newton (1869), Newton & Clark (1879), Newton & Gadow (1893), Oudemans (1917), Owen (1867, 1871), Salvadori (1893), Strickland (1853), Strickland & Melville (1848), Thompson (1829)
Jiří Mlíkovský, Národní Muzeum: Mlíkovský (2004)
Julian Hume: Hume (2005), Hume (2006), Hume & Cheke (2004), Hume et al. (2009), Hume et al. (2006), Hume et al. (2004), Hume & Prys-Jones (2005), Rijsdijk et al. (2009)
Laboratorio Ecologia de Cumunidades, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Temple (1977)
Leiden University Library: letter from Pieter Garet to Carolus Clusius (1603).
Linda Hall Library: Strickland & Melville (1848)
Nature et Patrimoine de l'Ile de La Réunion (Océan Indien): Probst (1995)
Oxford Journals: Valledor de Lozoya (2003)
The Rhino Resource Center: Rookmaaker (2010)
Service Interétablissements de Coopération Documentaire of the Universities of Strasbourg: Clusius (1605), Hermann (1783), Jonstonus (1650), Lankester (1905), Nieremberg (1635), Olearius (1674)
Springer: Iwanow (1958)
Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center, The Frances Hirtzel Collection of Richard Owen Correspondence: Owen’s letters (1838, 1865, 1866, 1881)
University of Mannheim: Jonstonus (1650)
University of New Mexico: Storer (1970)
University of Texas Libraries: Owen (1879)
Westarp Wissenschaften - Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei: Lüttschwager (1961)
Wolfenbüttel Digital Library: Olearius (1666), Olearius (1696)
Many of the books and articles relating to the dodo and solitaire listed in the Bibliography of the Didinæ can be found in the digitized works found on the Internet sites of:
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Google Books
The Internet Archive
Service Interétablissements de Coopération Documentaire of the Universities of Strasbourg
Wolfenbüttel Digital Library
The Dodologist’s Miscellany main page
Jolyon C. Parish 2012
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