Memoir on the Megatherium —— Or Giant Ground-Sloth of America, (Megatherium Americanum, Cuvier)

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ISBN: 9781331946182 出版年：2016 页码：172 Richard Owen Forgotten Books

Before commencing the description of the skeleton of the Megatherium, now in London, Plate I., which is the most complete that has yet reached Europe, a brief statement may be premised of the chief steps which have led to the restoration of the species (Megatherium Americanum, Cuvier and Blumenbach) to which it belongs.Cuvier, in communicating to the 'Annales du Muséum' (t. v. 1804) a translation of the first memoir on this subject - that, viz. by Garriga and Bru, published at Madrid in 1796, - gives all the requisite details respecting the discovery of the skeleton therein described, and adds his own more important deductions as to its affinities from an examination and comparison of the plates of the Spanish work.