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I.—The Pigmy Hippopotamus of Cyprus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Dorothea M. A. Bate
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The accompanying Plate represents a restoration of the skeleton of Hippopotamus minutus, Blain., which has lately been completed in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). The vertebral column and limbs are almost entirely composed of the actual bones, while the model of the skull has been built up according to the various parts obtained separately. No ribs were preserved in their entirety, neither were perfect specimens of the scapulæ or innominate bones procured. A large amount of material, including that from which the reconstruction of this skeleton has been made, was brought from Cyprus as the result of excavations carried on there by me at different times in 1901–2. The specimen was mounted and the skull modelled with great skill by Mr. P. O. Barlow, Formatore in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.).

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Geological Magazine , Volume 3 , Issue 6 , June 1906, pp. 241 - 245
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1906

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page 243 note 1 Presented to the National Collection by Dr. Büttikofer in 1887.

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page 245 note 1 Op. cit.

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