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| Title: | Milla, Karl, Die Flugbewegung der Vögel |
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| Dates: | 1895 |
| Manuscript Number: | Crerar Ms 406 |
| Size: | 0.25 linear feet (1 box) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | A copy of Karl Milla’s Die Flugbewegung der Vögel (1895) as well as a handwritten partial translation into English, both belonging to Octave Chanute (1832-1910). Crerar Manuscript 406. |
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A partial, handwritten English translation of Die Flugbewegung der Vögel von Karl Milla mit 27 Abbildungen (Leipzig & Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1895) in one notebook, as well as a copy of the German original, both belonging to the estate of Octave Chanute (1832-1910). It is possible that Chanute was the translator. Translated parts of the book are the preface by the author, pages 1-22 on “The Horizontal Rowing Flight of Birds,” and pages 83-91 on “The Directing (Steering).”
| Box 1 Folder 1 | Milla, Karl. Die Flugbewegung der Vögel. Leipzig und Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1895 |
| Box 1 Folder 2 | Handwritten partial English translation titled The Flight of Birds, undated |