Rakali
Date
1805
Creator
Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 128mm
width (print): 210mm
width (print): 210mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological study of a Rakali, or golden-bellied water rat, Hydromys chrysogaster (here referred to as the white bellied Hydromis, Hydromus leucogaster), a rodent native to Australia and Papua New Guinea. With details of the skull and lower jaw.
The accompanying article states that: ‘This species has a great resemblance to the preceeding [Hydromys chrysogaster, in fact the same]…they were found in the island of Maria, which is not far from d’Entrecasteaux’s channel, by Messrs. Peron and Lesueur, to whom we are indebted for almost the whole of the zollogical riches brought to us from New Holland.’.
Plate 8, illustrating the paper: ‘Memoir of a new genus of mammalia called Hydromis. By E. Geoffroy. The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.22, (1805) pp.328-334.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Vol. XXII Pl.VIII.’. Inscribed below: ‘B. White bellied Hydromys…’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844), French naturalist.
The accompanying article states that: ‘This species has a great resemblance to the preceeding [Hydromys chrysogaster, in fact the same]…they were found in the island of Maria, which is not far from d’Entrecasteaux’s channel, by Messrs. Peron and Lesueur, to whom we are indebted for almost the whole of the zollogical riches brought to us from New Holland.’.
Plate 8, illustrating the paper: ‘Memoir of a new genus of mammalia called Hydromis. By E. Geoffroy. The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.22, (1805) pp.328-334.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Vol. XXII Pl.VIII.’. Inscribed below: ‘B. White bellied Hydromys…’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844), French naturalist.
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