Walter Rothschild's second Great Auk skeleton: a history of its posthumous voyage.
ABSTRACT: The second complete Great Auk skeleton (Pinguinus impennis) formerly in Walter Rothschild's possession, previously thought lost, has been located. It was sold by Rowland Ward in 1905 to Georg Albert Girtanner, St Gallen, Switzerland. After Girtanner's death in 1907 the skeleton p...
Published in: | Archives of Natural History |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Edinburgh University Press
2002
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2002.29.3.337 |
Summary: | ABSTRACT: The second complete Great Auk skeleton (Pinguinus impennis) formerly in Walter Rothschild's possession, previously thought lost, has been located. It was sold by Rowland Ward in 1905 to Georg Albert Girtanner, St Gallen, Switzerland. After Girtanner's death in 1907 the skeleton passed to the Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frankfurt, Germany. A newly discovered letter, from Girtanner to Ernst Hartert, curator of Rothschild's collection at Tring, helps to reconstruct the posthumous voyage of this Great Auk skeleton. |
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