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The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle [vol. 1 of 5]
Richard Owen and Charles Darwin
Darwin came home from the Beagle with crates of fossil bones, and Richard Owen described the giants among them: Toxodon and other vanished South American mammals. This first zoological volume opens the scientific harvest of the famous voyage. Foundational paleontology tied to history's most important expedition. Meet the extinct beasts Darwin dug from the pampas.
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- 1THE ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF H. M. S. BEAGLE, UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN FITZROY, R.N., DURING THE YEARS 1832 TO 1836. PUBLISHED WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF HER MAJESTY’S TREASURY.
- 2CONTENTS.
- 3LIST OF PLATES.
- 4PREFACE.
- 5GEOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION.
- 6FOSSIL MAMMALIA.
- 7A DESCRIPTION OF THE CRANIUM OF TOXODON PLATENSIS; A gigantic extinct mammiferous animal, referrible to the Order Pachydermata, but with affinities to the Rodentia, Edentata, and Herbivorous Cetacea.
- 8DESCRIPTION OF FRAGMENTS OF A LOWER JAW AND TEETH OF A TOXODON.
- 9DESCRIPTION OF PARTS OF THE SKELETON OF MACRAUCHENIA PATACHONICA; A large extinct Mammiferous Animal, referrible to the Order Pachydermata; but with affinities to the Ruminantia, and especially to the Camelidæ.
- 10DESCRIPTION OF A FRAGMENT OF A CRANIUM OF AN EXTINCT MAMMAL, INDICATIVE OF A NEW GENUS OF EDENTATA, AND FOR WHICH IS PROPOSED THE NAME OF GLOSSOTHERIUM.
- 11DESCRIPTION OF A MUTILATED LOWER JAW AND TEETH, ON WHICH IS FOUNDED A SUBGENUS OF MEGATHERIOID EDENTATA, UNDER THE NAME OF MYLODON.
- 12DESCRIPTION OF A CONSIDERABLE PART OF THE SKELETON OF A LARGE EDENTATE MAMMAL, ALLIED TO THE MEGATHERIUM AND ORYCTEROPUS, AND FOR WHICH IS PROPOSED THE NAME OF SCELIDOTHERIUM[44] LEPTOCEPHALUM.
- 13Vertebral Column.
- 14Bones of the Extremities.
- 15DESCRIPTION OF A MUTILATED LOWER JAW OF THE MEGALONYX JEFFERSONII.
- 16DESCRIPTION OF A FRAGMENT OF THE SKULL AND OF THE TEETH OF THE MEGATHERIUM CUVIERI.
- 17DESCRIPTION OF FRAGMENTS OF BONES, AND OF OSSEOUS TESSELATED DERMAL COVERING OF LARGE EDENTATA.
- 18NOTICE OF FRAGMENTS OF MOLAR TEETH OF A MASTODON.
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