. Annual report - Western Society of Malacologists. Mollusks; Mollusks. CONTRIBUTED PAPER Some Remarks on Felipe Poey's "Memorias Sobre la Historia Natural de la Isla de Cuba" Morris K. Jacobson Associate, Department of Living & Fossil Invertebrates American Museum of Natural History- Central Park West at 79th Street New York, N. Y. 10024 Felipe Poey y Aloy (1799-1891), the Cuban savant and naturalist, was a man of an almost Humboldtian range of interests (See Boss & Jacobson, 1975, "Felipe Poey, with a catalogue of the Mollusca described by ; Harvard
. Annual report - Western Society of Malacologists. Mollusks; Mollusks. CONTRIBUTED PAPER Some Remarks on Felipe Poey's "Memorias Sobre la Historia Natural de la Isla de Cuba" Morris K. Jacobson Associate, Department of Living & Fossil Invertebrates American Museum of Natural History- Central Park West at 79th Street New York, N. Y. 10024 Felipe Poey y Aloy (1799-1891), the Cuban savant and naturalist, was a man of an almost Humboldtian range of interests (See Boss & Jacobson, 1975, "Felipe Poey, with a catalogue of the Mollusca described by ; Harvard Univ., Mus. Comp. Zool., Occ. Pap. Moll. 4(53): 105-132). His most interesting work, one which rivals Humboldt's "Cosmos" in range of topics if not in actual bulk, is his "Memorias sobre la historia natural de la Isla de Cuba," consisting of 53 essays published in two volumes between 1851 and 1861. I first met this book while working with Dr. William J. Clench and later with Dr. Kenneth J, Boss on the Helicinidae of Cuba. Poey was the author of many of the most important land shells of the island, and we had to refer frequently to the «- "; My interest in the work as a whole, not only in the shell descriptions, was aroused one day when I came across the following passage:* "Since I called the former species Cyclostoma honestum, the "chaste one," because it modestly covers its umbilicus as it matures, it would not be a bad idea to call the present species Cyclostoma procax, the "shameless one," since it openly displays its naked bellybutton all through its ; A book, I felt, which contains such happy observa- tions deserves to be read as a whole, and with attention. Following are a few of the more interesting comments which I found: When he wrote about the be- havior of animals, Poey did so • All translations are by Fl-;iJI'K l'()b:\' I i79y-i«90 55. Please note that these images are extracted f
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