Mammalia
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- 1. Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Graduate School of Engineering and Science, University of the Ryukyus, Senbaru, Nishihara, Okinawa 903 - 0213, Japan)
- 2. Department of Natural Sciences, Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96817 - 2704, USA
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Barnard (1950: 188) and Waterhouse (1880: 489, 490) listed a total of 51 plates for the Mammalia (viz., 1–8, 8 bis, 8–17, 19–36, 38–52). Plates 18 and 37 were not published (Barnard 1950: 188; 1952: 408; Jentink 1893: 182; Waterhouse 1880: 489; and index to Mammalia volume).
Barnard (1952: 408) clarified that there were a total of 52 Mammalia plates. The bound Mammalia volume contains 52 plates and an unnumbered index to the Mammalia volume (bound at the front of the volume we have examined), also lists 52 plates (1–17, 19–36, 38–53; 8 bis is not listed). The plate captions are numbered 1–8, 8 bis, 8–17, 19–36, 38–53.
The date of publication of the last plate (the 52nd which was numbered as “53”) is not known and therefore cannot be placed in our table. The caption accompanying the plate states “ Scotophilus dinganii.—Smith. Mammalia.—Plate LIII. … Vespertilio Dinganii, Smith. —South African Quarterly Journal, New Series, vol. i. 1832 ”. As the name Vespertilio dinganii was first made available in Smith (1833: 59) which antedates the Mammalia in the Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa (Smith 1838 –1849a), we see no need to seek an accurate date of publication for this plate.
It should also be noted that Nissen (1968: 385) stated that Mammalia plate 22 was not printed and that plate 23 was doubled. No other workers have mentioned this change in the Mammalia plates.
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- Barnard, K. H. (1950) The dates of issue of the ' Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa' and the ' Marine Investigations in South Africa'. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 2 (6), 187 - 189. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3366 / jsbnh. 1950.2.6.187
- Waterhouse, F. H. (1880) On the dates of publication of the parts of Sir Andrew Smith's ' Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa'. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1880 (3), 489 - 491.
- Barnard, K. H. (1952) Corrigendum. Smith's Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 2 (9), 408.
- Jentink, F. A. (1893) On the dates of publication of the parts of Sir Andrew Smith's Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa. Notes from the Leyden Museum, Leyden, 15 (3), 182.
- Anonymous (1838 a) Published under the Authority of Government. Now ready, in royal 4 to. containing 10 Coloured Engravings, Part I. price 10 s. Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa; comprising Figures of all the New Species of Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes, obtained during the Expedition, fitted out by " The Cape of Good Hope Association for exploring Central Africa, " in the years 1834, 1835, 1836, with Letterpress descriptions, and a Summary of African Zoology. The whole of the Plates will be engraved in the highest style of art, from the original Drawings taken expressly for this work, and beautifully coloured after Nature. By Andrew Smith, M. D. Surgeon to the Forces, and Director of the Expedition. Smith, Elder, & Co. Cornhill. The Athenaeum, Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, 1838 (558), 478.
- Nissen, C. (1968) Die zoologische Buchillustration. Ihre Bibliographie und Geschichte. Band I: Bibliographie. [Lieferung 5]. A. Hiersemann, Stuttgart, 321 - 400 pp.