Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11360

    Hand and foot of Verreaux’s sifaka

    Date
    1875
    Creator
    Charles Michelez (1817, French) , Photographer
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 114mm
    width (print): 111mm
    height (print): 117mm
    width (print): 125mm
    height (page): 306mm
    width (page): 222mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Studies of a hand and foot of Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi), a lemur native to Madagascar.

    Plate 79 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.79’ ; and below: ‘Michelez Phot. Imprimerie Nationale. Propithecus Verreauxii.’

    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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