True, Frederick W.

6 publications

True, Frederick W. (detail)
1884aA provisional list of the mammals of North and Central America, and the West Indian islands.
Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 7: 587-611. Nov. 29, 1884?
—P. 588: {"Order SIRENIA. Sea-cows. / Family TRICHECHIDAE. The Manatees. / Trichechus manatus, Linné. South American Manatee. / Texas to Brazil. / Trichechus latirostris, (Harlan) True. Florida Manatee. / Florida."} The combination T. latirostris is new here.
True, Frederick W. (detail)
1884cGreat International Fisheries Exhibition. London, 1883. United States of America. H. Catalogue of the aquatic mammals exhibited by the United States National Museum....
Washington, Govt. Printing Off.: 1-22.
—Sirs., 6-7, 15.
True, Frederick W. (detail)
1884bThe sirenians or sea-cows. In: G. B. Goode et al., The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States.... Section 1. Natural history of useful aquatic animals.
Washington, D.C., Govt. Printing Off. (xxxiv + 3-895): 114-136. Pls. 33-34 (in separate atlas).
—An interesting collection of general information on American manatees (114-128) and Steller's sea cow (128-136); quotes extensively from earlier authors and thereby provides a handy literature review. Includes a partial transl. of Steller (1751) by A. Charles True (130-134), and a report by Lucien Turner "that an aged Aleut woman stated that Rhytina had been seen at Attu by her father" (136).
True, Frederick W. (detail)
1906Description of a new genus and species of fossil seal from the Miocene of Maryland.
Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 30(1475): 835-840. Pls. 75-76.
—Abstrs.: Geol. Zentralbl. 11: 379?; Sci. Prog. 1: 452? Describes a sir. humerus from the Calvert Formation, thought to be perhaps "allied to Metaxytherium" (835, 840, pl. 76).
True, Frederick W. (detail)
1907Observations on the type specimen of the fossil cetacean Anoplonassa forcipata Cope.
Bull. Mus. Compar. Zool. 51(4): 97-106. 3 pls. July 1907.
—Abstr.: Sci. Prog. 2: 512? Notes that Cope at one time considered this species to be a sirenian (97).
True, Frederick W. (detail)
1912Symposium on ten years progress in vertebrate paleontology. Marine mammals.
Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 23: 197-200.
—Sirs., 197-198.