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    This is meant to be or become a collection of primary historical material relating to Archaeopteryx and its study. Much of it is translated into English from German and other languages. For additional material you may visit my Gerhard Heilmann pages. All comments, as well as other interesting material, are most welcome. You may send them to Ilja Nieuwland, Balsemienlaan 138, Den Haag, The Netherlands, or you can e-mail me at ilja@archaeopteryx.nl.

    The Source Book now contains these items:

    1. Hermann von Meyer, "Archaeopteryx lithographica", from: Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie (1861), 678-9.
    2. Andreas Wagner, "On a new reptile, supposedly furnished with feathers", from: Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, vol. 2, Heft II (1861), 146-154.
    3. Ferenc Nopcsa, Remarks to Petronievics' Work on Archaeopteryx lithographica, in: Annales Géologiques de la Péninsule Balkanique, Tome VIII, fasc. 2 (Sofia, 1926).
    4. From: Gavin de Beer, Archaeopteryx lithographica. A Study Based upon the British Museum Specimen (Trustees of the British Museum, London, 1954), pp. 54-57.
    5. From: M. Reichel, « l’Archéoptéryx. Un ancêtre des Oiseaux », in : Nos Oiseaux. Bulletin de la Société Romande pour l’étude et la Protection des Oiseaux, No. 159 (Décembre 1941), pp. 93-107 (avec dessins de l’auteur).
    6. Gerhard Heilmann, The Origin of Birds (1926) - with artwork and downloadable PDF of the book.

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    Digger of fossils, listener to music by obscure composers, ravisher of Type, cycler of eight daily kilometers to the Huygens Institute, and eight back, reader of sombre Scandinavian thrillers, Frisian fundamentalist with tongue firmly in cheek, watcher of British comedy, critical user of all that is Apple and collector of their older machines, eater of foods, drinker of beers (particularly German wheat beer), lamenting departer of Berlin, satisfied inhabiter of a seaside (or nearly so) apartment in The Hague, Netherlands.

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