Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11359

    Hand and foot of Milne-Edwards sifaka

    Date
    1875
    Creator
    Charles Michelez (1817, French) , Photographer
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 109mm
    width (print): 113mm
    height (print): 120mm
    width (print): 130mm
    height (page): 306mm
    width (page): 222mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Studies of a hand and foot of Milne-Edwards' sifaka (Propithecus edwardsi), a lemur native to Madagascar.

    Plate 78 figures 1-2 from the book Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar…volume IX Histoire naturelle des mammifères, by Alphonse Milne Edwards and Alfred Grandidier (Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1875).

    The plate is inscribed top: ‘Madagascar. Mammifères. Pl.78’ ; and below: ‘Michelez Phot. Imprimerie Nationale. Propithecus Edwardsii.’

    Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900) French mammalologist and ornithologist.
    Alfred Grandidier (1836-1921) French naturalist and explorer.

    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Africa
          > Madagascar
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