Author: Forsyth Major, C. I.
Title: Über die Malagassischen Lemuriden-Gattungen Microcebus, Opolemur und Chirogale.
Description: Tring, Zoological Museum Tring. 1894. 4to (28.5 x 20.0 cm). 38 pp.; two plates of which one a hand-coloured lithograph. Original printed wrappers. = Rare paper, extracted from Novitates Zoologicae, Volume 1(1) with a beautiful hand-coloured lithograph by the famous 19th-century natural history artist of Dutch descent, Joseph Smit (1836-1923) - by some regarded as even a better illustrator than his compatriot, John Gerrard Keulemans, depicting several lemurs. In this paper, several species are described as new. The author, Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major (1843-1923) was a Scottish-born, Swiss physician, zoologist and explorer, who did much field work in Madagascar himself (see Jenkins and Carleton). He lived most of his life in Zwitserland, which explains why this work was written in German. The wrapper is of the issue. A fine, clean copy. Jenkins, P. D. and M. D. Carleton (2005). Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major's expedition to Madagascar, 1894 to 1896: beginnings of modern systematic study of the island's mammalian fauna. J. Nat. Hist. 39.

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