1899] LACEPEDE'S "TABLEAUX" 409 



were corrected, they were not corrected in vol. xiv. of the " Quadrupedes " 

 of the Saugrain Buffon. And this fact seems to suggest that the 

 seventy volumes issued by Saugrain were all printed in or before 

 Tan vii. (1799). Why their publication was delayed, or arranged as 

 two volumes a month, we may never know. 



It follows, therefore, that — 



Lacepede's "Tableaux," 1799, exist. 



Their date is 1799. 



All the generic names are Lacepede's. 



The specific names in the original tract and in Mem. de Vlnst. are 

 Lacepede's ; but all the rest which appeared in the 1802 volume are 

 Daudin's. 



I have entered rather fully into this subject, and if the general 

 reader of Natural Science considers the whole thing a bore, it will at 

 least show him that much and tedious labour is necessary before one 

 can solve so apparently simple a problem as the date of publication of 

 a mere name, or even of an individual volume. 



REFERENCES. 



C. D. Sherborn. Natural Science, December 1897, p. 432. — C. W. Richmond. The 

 Auk, vol. xiv. No. 4, October 1899, p. 325. 



British Museum 



(Natural History), 

 London, S."\V 



