Jumping mouse of Canada
Date
1798
Creator
Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
After
Thomas Davies (1737 - 1812) , Army officer
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 128mm
width (print): 210mm
width (print): 210mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological studies of the Meadow jumping mouse, Zapus hudsonius, (here styled Dipus canadensis) native to North America. Two figures, showing the animal standing, in profile; and curled at rest.
The original paper, presented to the Linnean Society, was reproduced in the Philosophical Magazine. The author stated that the creature was ‘procured by myself in the neighbourhood of Quebec during my last residence in that country…I do not recollect to have seen this animal either figured or described by any author in natural history…The specimens from which I made the drawing are now in my collection’.
Plate 7, illustrating the paper: ‘An account of the Jumping Mouse of Canada, Dipus Canadensis’, by Major General Thomas Davies’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.1, (1798) pp.285-287.
Inscribed above: ‘Jumping Mouse of Canada. Philosophical Mag. Pl.VIII’. Inscribed lower left: ‘Lowry Sculpt.’.
Thomas Davies (c.1737-1812), British army officer and naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1781.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
The original paper, presented to the Linnean Society, was reproduced in the Philosophical Magazine. The author stated that the creature was ‘procured by myself in the neighbourhood of Quebec during my last residence in that country…I do not recollect to have seen this animal either figured or described by any author in natural history…The specimens from which I made the drawing are now in my collection’.
Plate 7, illustrating the paper: ‘An account of the Jumping Mouse of Canada, Dipus Canadensis’, by Major General Thomas Davies’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.1, (1798) pp.285-287.
Inscribed above: ‘Jumping Mouse of Canada. Philosophical Mag. Pl.VIII’. Inscribed lower left: ‘Lowry Sculpt.’.
Thomas Davies (c.1737-1812), British army officer and naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1781.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
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