The Dodo and the Solitaire: A Natural History

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xxi AMS Ashmolean Manuscript b. born BAAS British Association for the Advancement of Science BCE Before the Common Era BM British Museum BMNH British Museum (Natural History) bp Before Present (1950 CE) CE Common Era CI confidence interval D- document in the UMZC “Dodo Book” Archive (see Rookmaaker 2010) d. died DRP the Dodo Research Programme (2005–2009) fol. folio foll. folios Ma million years (ago/old) MAD Madagascar (including the Mascarenes) material, MNHN MI Mauritius Institute ML maximum likelihood MNHN Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (known as the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes before 1793) MPT most parsimonious tree MS manuscript MTMD Mon Trésor Mon Désert, Ltd. Naturalis Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden n.d. no date NHM The Natural History Museum, London PCR polymerase chain reaction pers. comm. personal communication (via letter or e-mail). Refers to a communication to the author, unless otherwise stated. Abbreviations A Abbreviations xxii r recto RSASM Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius SEM scanning electron microscope TNO TNO Bouw en Ondergrond (Geological Survey of the Netherlands) UCB Université Claude Bernard-Lyon 1, France UMZC University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge University v verso VOC Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie ZSL Zoological Society of London The Dodo and the Solitaire 1.1. The Dutch on Mauritius, with cassowaries (De Bry and De Bry 1600/1601a, pl. iii). ...