992 MONOGRAPHS OF NORTH AMERICAN RODENTIA. 



1856- Burmeister, H. Erltinternngen zur fauna Brasiliens, enthaltend Abbilduugen and ansfiihr- 

 licbe Beschreibnngen aeueroder ungeniigend bekannter Thierarten von Dr. Herm. Burmeister. 

 1 vol. Folio. Berlin, 1856. 



Jones, J. Investigations, chemical and physiological, relative to certain American vertehrata. 

 Philadelphia, lrtr.G. 4°. xi, 138 pp. = Smiths. Cont. to Knowledge, viii, art. 5. 



Leidy, J. Description of some remains of extinct mammalia. < Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 

 (2d ser.), ii, 1856, art. xiv, pp. 166-171, pll. 15-17. 



Leidy, J. Notices of extinct vertebrata, discovered by F. V. Hayden, during the expedition to 

 tbe Sioux country, under the command of Lieut. K. Warren. < Proc. Acad. Nat. .Sci. Pbila. 

 viii, 1856, pp. 311,312. 



Leidy, J. Notices of remains of extinct mammalia, discovered by F. V. Hayden, in Nebraska 

 Territory. < Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. viii, 1856, pp. 88-00. 



Leidy, J. Notices of remains of extinct vertebrated animals, discovered by Prof. E. Emmons. 

 <Proc. Aead. Nat. Sci. Phila. viii, 1856, pp. 255,256. 

 lOrycterocetua cornutidens, n. 8p., describod p. 255.1 



Leidy, J. Notices of remains of extinct vertebrated animals of New Jersey, collected by Prof. 

 Cook, of tbe State geological survey, under tbe direction of Dr. W. Kitcbell. <^Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Puila. viii, 1856, pp. 220,221. 

 [Macrophoca atlantica, n. ap., deacribod p. 223.1 



Leidy, J. Notices of several genera of extinct mammalia, previously less perfectly character- 

 ized. < Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. viii, 1856, pp. 77, 91, 92. 



Leidy, J. Notices of some remains of extinct mammalia, recently discovered by Dr. F. V. Hay- 

 den in the Bad Lands of Nebraska. <Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila. viii, 1850, p. 59. 



Pucheran, J. Essai de determination du caractore faunique de l'Europe et du nord de l'Asie. 

 < Iustitut, xxiv, 1856, pp. 282,283. 



Sclater, P. L. List of mammals and birds collected by Mr. Bridges in the vicinity of tbe town 

 of David in the province of Chiriqui in tbe state of Panama. < Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, xxiv, 

 1856, pp. 138-143. 



1857.— Baird, S. F. Catalogue of North American mammals, chiefly in tbo Museum of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 4P. 21 pp. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, July, 1857. 



Baird, S. F. Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain tbo most practicable and econom- 

 ical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to tbo Pacific Ocean. Made tinder the 

 direction of the Secretary of War in 1853-5G, according to acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, 

 May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854. Vol. viii. 4°. pp. i-xlvii, 1-757, pll. i-lx. Washington, Bev- 

 erly Tucker, printer, 1857. 



[The contents of thia volume (which ia " Part i " of a " General report on the zoology of the several Pacific 

 Kailroad rontea") conaiat entirely of " Matnmala, by Spencer F. Baird". It ia a work otherwise known aa 

 " Mammala of North America ", the text having been reiaaned, in 1859, with tbe platea, and with the plates of 

 the other volumea of Pacific ftailroad reports, and othera. 



It ia a systematic account of the mammala (exclusive of Cetacea, Cbiroptera, Sirenia, and Piunipedia) of 

 North America, about 220 in number, and ia by far the most important and moat authoritative tieatiae which 

 haa ever appeared upon tbe subject.] 



[Billings, E.] Gleauings in the natural history of the Hudson's Bay Territories, by the arctic 

 voyagers, lanon.] < Can. Nat. and Geol. ii, 1857, art. xxi, pp. 170-185, 185, 186. 186-188, 172- 

 178. 



Blasius, J.H. Naturgeschicbte dor Saugethiere Deutschlands uud der angrenzenden Lander 

 von Mitteleuropa 8°. vi (including 2 titles), 549 pp., 290 figg. in text. Braun- 

 schweig, Druck uud Verlag von Friedricb Vieweg und Sobu, 1857. Also entitled: Fauna der 



Wirbeltbiere Dentschlauds und der angrenzenden Lander von Mitteleuropa Erster 



Band, Saugethiere, mit zahlreicben Abbildungeu im Texte. 



Kemp, A. F. Notes on tbo Bermudas and their natural history, with special reference to their 

 marine alga. <Can. Nat. and Geol. ii, 1657, art. xix. pp. 145-156. 



Kennicott, R. Tbo quadrupeds of Illinois injurious and beneficial to the farmer. < Rep. of 

 the Commissioner of Patents for tbe Year 1850, Agriculture, 1857, pp. 52-110, pll. v-xiv. 



Le Conte, J. L. Descriptions of several new mammals from Western Africa. < Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila. ix, 1857, pp. 10-11. 



