Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... from the Proceedings Of The Zoological Society Of London, 1904, vol. i. Published June 9, 1904. On a Collection of Mammals from British Namaqualand, presented to the National Museum by Mr. C. D. Rudd. By Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., and Harold Schwann, F.Z.8 (Plate Vl.t) By the generous help of Mr. C. D. Rudd, Mr. C. H. B. Grant, who had previously collected at Deelfontein the fine series of Mammals presented by Col. A. T. Sloggett, has been enabled to continue in the Cape Colony collecting material for the British Museum. Diagnoses of the new forms published in Abstracts P. Z. S. 1904, no. 2, pp. 5, 6 (Feb. 9th). t For explanation of the Plate, see p. 183. After a short stay in the Cape Peninsula, where he obtained useful topotypes of several long-known species, Mr. Grant went to Little Namaqualand in March 1903, and settled at Klipfontein. a place some 80 miles inland of Port Nolloth, at an altitude of about 1000 metres. He also stayed for shorter periods at Anenous, north of Klipfontein, 50 miles from the coast (alt. 600 m.), and at Port Nolloth itself. So far as the British Museum is concerned, Namaqualand has been hitherto almost entirely neglected, the few specimens obtained there by Dr. Andrew Smith about 1830 (e. g. Petromys typicus, Otomys brantsii, &c.) and the little set collected by Dr. R. Broom at Port Nolloth in 1897 (including the type of Otomys broomi) being the only mammals that the Museum has ever received from that country. For the South African Museum Mr. Peringuey also collected a certain number at Klipfontein, as recorded by Mr. W. L. Sclater, but he does not seem to have come upon any of the new forms we now find it necessary to describe. This is the first occasion in the history of Cape zoology that any considerable...