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| Melguen, Marthe. |
| A time when France, as well as Great Britain, had a very ambitious maritime policy, the La Pérouse expedition was the only maritime expedition conceived, designed and followed at a national level by the King himself, Louis XVI. The excellence of the Expedition's preparation and of its importance in terms of scientific results, the exceptional concern of La Pérouse in the fields of data gathering and transmission, his very high quality as captain of a global expedition, made it a remarkable achievement, despite its disastrous end. |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: D'Entrecasteaux; Cook; La Pérouse; Age of Enlightenment; Voyages of exploration; Voyages of discovery; North western America; North east Asia; Oceania; Tasmania; Pacific Ocean. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2004/acte-358.pdf |
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| Smeenk, C.. |
| The identity of an old female specimen of Pseudocheirus peregrinus (Boddaert, 1785) in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, is discussed and the early descriptions and nomenclatural history of the species are reviewed. The assumption by Temminck (1824) and Jentink (1888) that the animal originated from one of Cook’s expeditions is extensively considered, since in that case it would be the holotype of Didelphis peregrinus Boddaert, 1785 and of some objective synonyms. The documentation of the specimen is insufficient to draw a definitive conclusion. However, the damage to the facial skin of the animal collected at Endeavour River in 1770 mentioned by Pennant (1781) would agree with the state of the Leiden specimen, which must have been badly... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Mammalia; Diprotodontia; Pseudocheiridae; Pseudocheirus peregrinus; Holotype; History; Nomenclature; Cook; Banks; Australia; 42.84. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/311949 |
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