Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802-1879). Mittheilungen über die Naturgeschichte des Mammuth oder Mamont (Elephas primigenius). St. Petersburg: Kaiserlich Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1866. Ellis Omnia C330

Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802-1879). Mittheilungen über die Naturgeschichte des Mammuth oder Mamont (Elephas primigenius). St. Petersburg: Kaiserlich Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1866. Ellis Omnia C330

The Elephantine Russian Empire... Johann Friedrich Brandt, known as well by his Russian moniker Fedor Fedorovich Brandt, was a native of Saxony, educated in Berlin as zoologist, surgeon, botanist and pharmacologist. He moved to St. P. just short of his 30th birthday to head the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences, where he authored many scientific books and papers of which this department has quite a stash. Alas, the woolly mammoth is now extinct (as of ca. 10,000 years ago) but before that he was a contemporary with Lower Paleolithic humans in the second half of the Pleistocene, inhabiting Europe, northern Asia and America. At least 40 mammoths have been found in the permafrost of northern Siberia and Alaska (possibly many more now with global warming). An expedition of the Academy found the most complete specimen to date in 1901-02 (again, this record may have been bumped by now). All parts of the animal, including stomach contents, were analyzed, and the skeleton can be viewed today in the Academy's Zoological Museum.

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