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- Title
On the land mammals of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, by John Henry Keen, with a catalogue of specimens.
- Authors
Sealy, S. G.
- Abstract
From 1890 to 1899, the Reverend John Henry Keen collected plants and animals in the vicinity of the Anglican mission at Massett, on the north-central coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), British Columbia, Canada. Keen's prodigious collecting efforts resulted in the first detailed information on the natural history of that region, particularly of the beetle fauna. Keen also observed and collected mammals, depositing specimens in museums in Canada, England and the United States, for which a catalogue is given. Several mammal specimens provided the basis for new distributional records and nine new taxa, two of which were named for Keen. In 1897, Keen prepared an annotated list of ten taxa of land mammals of the Queen Charlotte Islands, including the first observations of natural history for some of the species. Particularly important were the insightful questions Keen raised about the evolution of mammals isolated on the Islands, especially why certain species, abundant on the mainland, were absent.
- Subjects
HAIDA Gwaii (B.C.); KEEN, John H.; NATURAL history; ISLAND animals; COLLECTION &; preservation of zoological specimens
- Publication
Archives of Natural History, 2017, Vol 44, Issue 2, p259
- ISSN
0260-9541
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/anh.2017.0448