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No date.—(French) in Thevenofs Relations de divers Voyages curieux. Paris, 1663, vol. 1.— (German) in
Hulsius, Vier und zwanzigste Schiffart. 4to. Francfort, 1648. p. 7.
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—Prévost, Hist. gén. des Voyages, vol. 9. p. 8.
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*1819. (Oiseau bleu)—Rees (A-) Cyclopaedia, art. “ Bourbon.”
*1829. (Dronte ou Solitaire)—B illiard (A.) Voyage aux Colonies Orientales, ou lettres écrites des Isles de
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LI ST OF PLATES .
P late I. -— Frontispiece.—Fac-simile of Roland Savery’s figure of the D odo in his picture of the Fall of Adam, in
the Royal Gallery at Berlin.
P l a t e II. p. 9.—Fac-simile of Plate 2 of the French edition of Van Neck’s Voyage, fol. Amsterdam, 1601. This
plate is copied by De Bry, and other editors of Van. Neck. The Dodo, at Fig. 2, is also introduced by
De Bry into the ornamental title-page of his India Orientalis, Pars V.
P late III. p. 30.—Fac-simile of Roland Savery’s picture of the D odo in the Belvedere at Vienna.
Plate III.* p. 46.—View of the Island of Rodriguez, looking South.
P late IV. p. 48.—Fac-simile of the Frontispiece of Leguat’s Voyage.
P l a t e IV.* p. 50.—View of Port Mathurin, Rodriguez, looking West.
Plates I I ., I I I ., 111.*, TV., and IV.*, are examples of various applications of Anastatic Printing. Plate I I . is a fac-simile of an engraving
executed by tracing the original, line for line, with a steel pen, lithographic ink, and tracing paper. The drawing is then transferred,
by the Anastatic process, to a plate of zinc, and printed from as in ordinary zincography or lithography. Plate IV. is
executed in the gsme way as Plate I I ., except that its details are copied by the eye instead of being traced. Plates I II., III.*
and TV.*, are of a new art to which I have given the name of Papyrography, (See Athenaum, Feb. 12, 1848.) I t
consists in drawing on paper with lithographic chalk, and in transferring the drawings, so made, to a plate of zinc, by the
Anastatic process. These drawings, when printed, bear a dose resemblance to lithographs, and enable an artist or a traveller by
merdy using lithographic chalk instead of a lead pencil, to p rint and publish his original sketches (without redrawing or
reversing), a t any interval of time. For Plate III.* and IV * I am indebted to E. Higgin, Esq., of Liverpool, who sent the
drawings by post to Oxford, where they were transferired and printed by Mr. P. H. Delamotte.—H. E. S.
P late V.
Fig. 1. Side view of the bead of the D odo, with the dried skin, from the unique specimen in the Ashmolean Museum
at Oxford.
Fig. 2. Side view of the head of the D odo, restored chiefly from the celebrated picture, presented by Edwards to the
British Museum. The great development of the cere, the tubular nostril opening forwards, the form
• and abrupt termination of the horny sheaths which have disappeared in Fig. 1, the extent of the gape,
and the caruncular folds at the base of the upper gnathotheca, on the forehead, and extending from the
angle of the mouth, are well exhibited.
P late VI.
Front, side, and back -views of the leg of the Dono, in the British Musenm. These two plates were executed
for that valuable work, the “ Genera of Birds,” by Messrs. G. E. Gray, and D. W. Mitchell, who have
obligingly allowed us the use of them.