Abstract
THE recent and extinct gigantic land-tortoises in the collection of the British Museum has just received at the hands of Mr. A. C. L. G. Günther, Keeper of the Department of Zoology, an elaborate and exhaustive memoir and history. As early as 1872 Dr. Günther had made much progress in the elucidation of their structure, but in 1874 the osteology of the Mascarene tortoises had still more engaged his attention. Again in 1877 new matter arising from fresh materials imported into England from the Aldabra group of islands, Mauritius, Rodriguez, and the Albemarle and Abingdon Islands, enabled Günther to complete his memoir upon these gigantic land-tortoises, recent and fossil.
Gigantic Land-Tortoises, Living and Extinct, in the Collection of the British Museum.
By A. C. L. G. Günther. Keeper of the Department of Zoology. (London: Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1877.)
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E., R. Gigantic Land-Tortoises . Nature 17, 483–484 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017483a0
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