Project Gutenberg 2025-04-25 Public domain in the USA. 292 Owen, Richard 1804 1892 Broderip, William John 1789 1859 Broderip, W. J. (William John) Memoir on the Dodo (Didus ineptus, Linn.) $aLondon :$bTaylor and Francis, $c1866. Charlene Taylor, Robert Tonsing, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) “Memoir on the Dodo (Didus ineptus, Linn.)” by Richard Owen is a scientific publication written in the mid-19th century. The book focuses on the extinct Dodo bird of Mauritius, combining historical accounts, pictorial and written evidence, and anatomical descriptions. Its primary aim is to document the history and physical characteristics of the Dodo using all available evidence from literature, art, museum specimens, and recent discoveries of skeletal remains to establish a comprehensive understanding of this bird’s existence and affinities. The opening of this work lays out a meticulous historical introduction, recounting early European encounters with the Dodo, descriptions and illustrations from travel accounts, and the subsequent preservation (and loss) of Dodo specimens in various museums. Richard Owen presents a summary of William John Broderip’s exhaustive investigations, detailing primary sources that reference the Dodo and discussing known physical remains, such as bones and skins, as well as the depiction of the Dodo in 17th-century paintings. The narrative then transitions to more recent developments, including the discovery of additional bones in Mauritius and efforts to confirm their identity, thus setting the stage for a scientific analysis of the Dodo’s anatomy and its classification within the bird family. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/Memoirdodo00Owen/page/n12/mode/2up 20220208193228owenfrs 1866 GB Reading ease score: 55.4 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Dodo QL Text Category: History - Other Category: Science - Biology Category: Archaeology & Anthropology 259118 2025-06-30T05:49:15.538568 text/html 230530 2025-04-25T07:15:35 text/html 3564239 2025-06-30T05:49:25.206497 application/epub+zip 3565833 2025-06-30T05:49:18.726563 application/epub+zip 165659 2025-06-30T05:49:16.295555 application/epub+zip 9921304 2025-06-30T05:49:28.989525 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 9890801 2025-06-30T05:49:22.753542 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 200220 2025-06-30T05:49:14.800565 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 180194 2025-04-25T07:15:35 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16622 2025-06-30T05:49:29.137491 application/rdf+xml 8685 2025-06-30T05:49:16.518545 image/jpeg 1429 2025-06-30T05:49:16.405546 image/jpeg 4193368 2025-06-30T05:49:15.621549 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia