Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11139

    ‘Colobus verus’

    Date
    1848-1852
    Creator
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 355mm
    width (page): 265mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > monkey
    Description
    Zoological studies of a Colobus monkey, probably the olive colobus monkey, Procolobus verus (here styled Colobus verus) native to coastal regions of West Africa. In addition to the main study of the primate there are details of the animal’s skull (figures 2-3) and upper and lower jaws (figures 4-5).

    Plate from the paper ‘Over colobus verus’, by H S Pel published in the journal Bijdragen tot de dierkunde. Deel 1. (Amsterdam, M. Westerman & Zoon, 1848-1854).

    Inscribed below: ‘COLOBUS VERUS’.

    Hendrik Severinus Pel (fl.mid-19th century) was a Dutch colonial official in what was the Gold Coast, now Ghana, West Africa.

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