[973] Land Birds, vol. i. p. 316. ed. 1821.
[974] Some have complained that inscriptions on tomb-stones convey no general information, except that individuals were born and died, accidents which must happen alike to all men. But the death of a species is so remarkable an event in natural history that it deserves commemoration, and it is with no small interest that we learn, from the archives of the University of Oxford, the exact day and year when the remains of the last specimen of the dodo, which had been permitted to rot in the Ashmolean Museum, were cast away. The relics, we are told, were "a musæo subducta, annuente vice-cancellario aliisque curatoribus, ad ea lustranda convocatis, die Januarii 8vo, A.D. 1755." Zool. Journ. No. 12. p. 559. 1828.
[975] Penny Cyclopædia, "Dodo." 1837.
[976] Messrs. Strickland and Melville on "the Dodo and its Kindred." London, 1848.
[977] Pers. Nar. vol. iv.
[978] Quarterly Review, vol. xxi. p. 335.
[979] Ibid.
[980] Ulloa's Voyage. Wood's Zoog. vol. i. p. 9.
[981] Buffon, vol. v. p. 100. Ulloa's Voyage, vol. ii. p. 220.
[982] Travels in Iceland in 1810, p. 342.