The Popular science monthly

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Photograph of a watercolor painting of a narinari (Aetobatus narinari) Identifier: popularsciencemo81newy (find matches)
Title: The Popular science monthly
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Science Technology
Publisher: (New York, Popular Science Pub. Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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of its size.17 The second part also on whiteparchment . . . contains two quadrupeds, 15 birds, 46 amphibians, 45 fishes,46 insects and several pages of plants ... it consists of 114 sheets on whichone finds the designs mentioned which have been made by the same hand asthose in the first part. That Blochs reproduction of these paintings went far to make themknown to the world is not to be denied, indeed, the present writer first 15 Lichtenstein comments on the characteristic half jocular notes added byCount Maurice, of which the following may be quoted. On the sheet containingthe figure of the ant-eater, Tamandua guacu, the Count has written: This isthe great ant-eater, as large as#an otter. He sticks his tongue into a hole, theants sit down on it, and then he draws it into his mouth. The tongue is aboutone half an ell long. ... He can not run at all. 16 For this transcript I am indebted to the courtesy of Dr. Perlbach, of theRoyal Library of Berlin. 17 See Fig. 3. GEORGE MARCGRAVE 267
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Fig. 3. Photograph of the Water-color Painting of Narinari. came to know of them through the preface to Volume VI. of the Ichthyologie/ but as to the fidelity of the reproduction let Cuvier andValenciennes speak. Bloch had copied many of these figures in his Ichthyologie, but withoutseeming to doubt that they were designed by the Prince, and what is morereprehensible in him, in adding or taking away or changing a great many thingsvery arbitrarily.18 The set of drawings above referred to are in water colors and arethus labeled in the Eoyal Library of Berlin: Brazilianische Xatur-gegenstande (Collectio rerum naturalium Brasilia;) in two Banden.Libri picturati A. 36. 37. Their authorship and history will be discussed later. Figure threeis a photograph of the painting in this collection of the spotted sting-ray, Narinari. When there is taken into account the fact that this 18 This was probably written by Valenciennes, who made a special trip toBerlin in 1826 to inspect these paintings. 26

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