Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences edinburghjournal01macg Year: 1835 The third, and most perfect, representation of the Dodo, is taken from the â¢' JJis- toria SniurQlis ut Mcdica India: Oiientalh,'' by Jacob Bontius, which appeared in 1(558. Ray, who published in 1676 and 1688 aa edition of Willughby's Ornithology, We now give a copy of the painting of the Dodo in the British Museum, which Edwards faithfully imitated in his ' History of Uncommon Birds,' plate 294, pub- lished in 1760. He says, ' The original picture was drawn in Holland, from a living bird b
Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences edinburghjournal01macg Year: 1835 The third, and most perfect, representation of the Dodo, is taken from the â¢' JJis- toria SniurQlis ut Mcdica India: Oiientalh,'' by Jacob Bontius, which appeared in 1(558. Ray, who published in 1676 and 1688 aa edition of Willughby's Ornithology, We now give a copy of the painting of the Dodo in the British Museum, which Edwards faithfully imitated in his ' History of Uncommon Birds,' plate 294, pub- lished in 1760. He says, ' The original picture was drawn in Holland, from a living bird brought from St IMaurice's Island, in the East Indies, in the early times of the discovery of the Indies, by the way of the Cape of Good Hope. It was the property of the late Sir Hans Sloane to the time of his death, and afterwards becoming my property, I deposited it in the British Bluseura, as a great curiosity. The above his- tory of the picture I had from Sir Hans Sloane and the late Dr Mortimer, Secretary to the Royal Society.' There seems to be pretty clear evidence that an entire specimen of this bird was in the Museum of John Tradescant. It is mentioned in his printed catalogue of Stuflfed Skins of Birds, in *' Section 5, JFhole BirdsâDodar, from the island Mauritius; it is not able to flie, being so big.' This specimen was afterwards exhibited in the Ashmolean Museum, and is particularly alluded to by Hyde in his ' Religionis Vc- terum Persarum Hisioria,'' printed in 1700, who states it to be then existing in the Museum at Oxford. It was destroyed at a later period than 1755, by order of the Visitors, in consequence of its state of decay. In a Catalogue of that Museum made subsequently to 1755, it is recorded that ' the Nos. from 5 to 46, being decayed, were ordered to be removed at a meeting of the majority of the Visitors, January 8, 1755.' The Dodo was one of these, as it stood No. 29 of the Catalogue, under the name of '^' Gallus gallinaceus pcregrinus Clusii' &c
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