Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12356

    Black bearded saki

    Date
    1821
    Creator - Organisation
    W & D Lizars, Engraver
    After
    Thomas Stewart Traill (1781 - 1862, British) , Physician
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN32515
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 125mm
    width (print): 210mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > monkey
    Description
    Zoological study of the Black bearded saki Chiropotes satanas (here referred to as Simia sagulata) a new world monkey native to the eastern Amazon of Brazil.

    Plate 9 accompanying the paper ‘Description of the Simia sagulata, or Jacketed Monkey’, by Thomas Stewart Traill, Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, v.3 1817-1820, pp.167-169 (Edinburgh, 1821). Inscribed above: ‘PLATE IX Wern. Mem. Vol.III. p.167’. Inscribed below: ‘T.S.Traill delt. W.& D. Lizars Sculpt.’ The plate is captioned below: ‘JACKETED MONKEY. (SIMIA SAGULATA.)’

    Thomas Stewart Traill (1781–1862), physician and specialist in medical jurisprudence, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > South America
          > Brazil
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