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LANKESTER, Sir Edwin Ray (1814-1874). Monograph of the Okapi. London: The British Museum, 1910. 4° (310 x 235mm). 48 photographic or printed plates, including 2 chromolithographic plates after J. Terrier. Original blue cloth gilt. Wood, p.426.
Sir H.H. JOHNSTON (1858-1927). Autograph letter signed to Lankester, 27 October 1927, DISCUSSING HIS DONATION OF THE FIRST SPECIMENS OF THE OKAPI to Lankester at the Natural History Museum, and expressing his dismay at a suggestion that the okapi is to be named after his assistant, Eriksson, and not, as originally proposed, Okapia Johnstoni, 'I shall never agree to the injustice of the proposal', 8 pages, 8vo; [Together with:] 5 autograph letters signed by Lankester to Clement Shorter, 15 July - 8 August n.y., referring to the stuffing of the 'new giraffe-like animal from the Congo ... The stuffed beast comes out very differently from Johnston's picture', and making arrangements for the stuffed creature to be photographed, 12 pages, 8vo; and a collection of related newspaper cuttings; in an album, 4°, green cloth. (3)
Sir H.H. JOHNSTON (1858-1927). Autograph letter signed to Lankester, 27 October 1927, DISCUSSING HIS DONATION OF THE FIRST SPECIMENS OF THE OKAPI to Lankester at the Natural History Museum, and expressing his dismay at a suggestion that the okapi is to be named after his assistant, Eriksson, and not, as originally proposed, Okapia Johnstoni, 'I shall never agree to the injustice of the proposal', 8 pages, 8vo; [Together with:] 5 autograph letters signed by Lankester to Clement Shorter, 15 July - 8 August n.y., referring to the stuffing of the 'new giraffe-like animal from the Congo ... The stuffed beast comes out very differently from Johnston's picture', and making arrangements for the stuffed creature to be photographed, 12 pages, 8vo; and a collection of related newspaper cuttings; in an album, 4°, green cloth. (3)
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