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Crocodiles

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Robert Broom, 12 June 1921

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/71
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Robert Broom telling Geikie that he has named a fossil after a colleague John Young. The fossil, Youngina, is possibly the common ancestor of lizards, crocodiles, dinosaurs, pterodactyls and birds. He describes his work progress in South Africa including a drawing of a gorgonopsid reptile skeleton.

Dates: 12 June 1921

Volume I Part IV, 1949

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Identifier: Coll-2099/6/2/1/2
Scope and Contents

Volume I Park IV, of the magazine for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, 'Scottish Zoo and Wild Life'.

contents of this edition of the magazine include; Aquariums, Hydro-Electric Schemes - and fish; Saving Australia's "Teddy Bear"; Zoo Personalities; The Crocodiliams; The Drinking Habbits of Wild Animals; African Oddities; Pages for Young People; Golden Hamsters.

Dates: 1949

Zoo Tales, Third Series, 1935

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Identifier: Coll-2099/6/3/3
Scope and Contents

"Zoo Tales, third series", by Thomas Gillespie. Published by Oliver and Boyd's with illustrations by William Walls R.S.A.

Intended as a children's information book about the animals at Edinburgh Zoo, this series contains chapters on the following animals; polar bears; crocodiles; mice and rats; deer; birds; camels; chimpanzees.

Dates: 1935