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been })ublislied in the ]6tli and 17tli centuries about the 

 Dodo, in print as well as the representations in books, 

 pictures, and paintings. In doing so I came across many 

 facts hitherto neglected, and on these I was able to draw 

 conclusions^ wliich throw a new light upon all kinds of 

 matters. The mass of facts increased in such a manner 

 that I presejited my results to the Koninklijke Akademie van 

 Wetenschappen (Royal Academy of Sciences) at Amsterdam. 



First, then, Dr. Killermann of Regenburg found in 1912, 

 iu a beautiful parchment codex at Florence, a figure of the 

 Dodo, which shows so much conformity with that on the 

 gable-stone, that I conclude that both the makers of them 

 had before them a bird of the same species, of the same sex, 

 in the same stage of development, and in the same position. 



Secondly, the figure of the Dodo on the frontispiece of 

 de Bry's Variorum Navigationes, 1601, agrees in all respects 

 so exactly with that whicli Killermann found in the parch- 

 ment codex at Florence, that these two figures must be 

 copies of one original drawing that illustrates one of the 

 many manuscript journals of Van Neck's voyage (1598- 

 1599). .Most probably this manuscript is still in Florence. 



Professor Millies, of the University of Utrecht, discovered 

 in 1861< in the Library there a figure of the Dodo. It is a 

 pen-and-ink drawing by the well-known painter Van de 

 Venue of 1626. This drawing has so much agreement with 

 the Doilo in the picture by de Hondecoeter at Berlin, that 

 both must have been taken from the living Dodo, that was 

 shown in Amsterdam iu 1626. 



Tiie relation of Willem van West Zanen of 1648 is illus- 

 trated by a plate, divided in three horizontal sections; in 

 the middle one we see seamen killing penguins. In the 

 letterpress Willem tells us of the killing of Dodos, and the 

 editor Soeteboom, who illustrated the volume, adds : — " haar 

 afbeeltsel is in de vorige Plaat^' [her (i.e. the Dodo's) repre- 

 sentation is in the foregoing Plate]. Now, both Strickland, 

 1848, and Millies, 1868, remark that on the plate there 

 are represented penguins, not Dodos. Not only these two 

 writers, but also all the later ornithologists have overlooked 



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