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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

MELVILLE, Alexander Gordon (1819 – 1901)

1819 – 1901

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1848

#10176

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.

STRICKLAND, Hugh Edwin (1811 – 1853)
STRICKLAND, Hugh Edwin (1811 – 1853) MELVILLE, Alexander Gordon (1819 – 1901)

The first separate monograph on the dodo, an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. "The closest genetic relative to the dodo was the also extinct …