Plains pocket gopher
Date
1800
Creator
Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
After
Thomas Davies (1727, British) , Army Officer
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 128mm
width (print): 210mm
width (print): 210mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological study of a Plains pocket gopher, Geomys bursarius (here styled Mus busarius), a rodent native to North America.
The author of the accompanying article states that: ‘The cheek-pouches are far larger, in proportion to the animal, than in any other of this tribe, and therefore have given occasion for the specific name. (Plate VIII.) This quadruped was taken by some Indian [First Nations] hunters in the upper parts of Interior Canada, and sent down to Quebec. It is now in the possession of Governor Prescot’.
Plate 8, illustrating the paper: ‘Description of the Mus Bursarius, from a drawing communicated by Major-General Thomas Davies…by George Shaw’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.6, (1800) pp.215-216.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.VIII. Vol. VI.’.
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 author of the accompanying article states that: ‘The cheek-pouches are far larger, in proportion to the animal, than in any other of this tribe, and therefore have given occasion for the specific name. (Plate VIII.) This quadruped was taken by some Indian [First Nations] hunters in the upper parts of Interior Canada, and sent down to Quebec. It is now in the possession of Governor Prescot’.
Plate 8, illustrating the paper: ‘Description of the Mus Bursarius, from a drawing communicated by Major-General Thomas Davies…by George Shaw’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.6, (1800) pp.215-216.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.VIII. Vol. VI.’.
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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