MELVILLE, Alexander Gordon (1819 – 1901)

1819 – 1901

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Cochrane, William, 1831-1898 and Hopkins, J. Castell (John Castell), 1864-1923 · The Canadian album : men of Canada; or, Success by example, in religion, patriotism, business, law, medicine, education and agriculture; containing portraits of some of Canada's chief business men, statesmen, farmers, men of the learned professions, and others; also, an authentic sketch of their lives; object lessons for the present generation and examples to posterity (Volume 4) (1891-1896) Publisher:Brantford, Ont. : Bradley, Garretson & Co., 1891-1896 · Public domain

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1848 CE

#10176

The dodo and its kindred; Or, the history, affinities, and osteology of the dodo, solitaire, and other extinct birds of the islands Mauritius, Rodriguez and Bourbon.

STRICKLAND, Hugh Edwin (1811 – 1853)

MELVILLE, Alexander Gordon (1819 – 1901)

The first separate monograph on the dodo, an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. "The closest genetic relative to the dodo was the also extinct …