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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1859. [4to., 4 p. 1., xi— xxxiv, 735 

 pp. _|_ (Part II, 1—55 pp.) 736— 7G4 pp., 87 pi. (29 col.)— $10; with col. pi., 



$15.] 



[" Part I. General report upon the Mammals of the several Pacific railroad 

 routes. • • • . Washington, D. C, July, 1857 :" reprinted from the "Reports 

 of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical 

 route for a railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean. • • • . 

 Volume VIII. Washington: • • -. 1857." (60 pi. in v. VI, VII, VIII.) 

 "Part II. Special report upon the Mammals of the Mexican boundary. By 

 Spencer F. Baird, • • • . With notes by the naturalists of the survey. Wash- 

 ington, D. C, January, 1859:" reprinted from the "Report on the United 

 States and Mexican boundary survey, made under direction of the secretary 

 of the interior, by William H. Emory, major first cavalry and United States 

 commissioner. Volume II. Washington :••• . 1859. (Part II. [§1.] Mam. 

 mals of the boundary, ••••)" 62 pp. 27 pi.] 



BLAINVILLE (Henri Marie Ducrotay de). Osteographie ou description ico- 

 nographique comparee du squelette et du systeme dentaire des Mammiferes 

 recents et fossiles pour servir de base a la zoologie et a la geologie | par H. M. 

 Ducrotay de Blainville • • • . Ouvrage accompagne de 323 planches litho- 

 graphies sous sa direction par M. J. C. Werner, peintre du Museum d'histoire 

 naturelle de Paris, precede d'une etude sur la vie et les travaux de M. de 

 Blainville, par M. P. Picard.— [I— IV.— See " Contents."]— Paris: J. B. Baii- 

 liere et fils • • • . 1839-1864. [Text, 4to., 4v.; Atlas, fob, 4v.] 



[Published in twenty-six fascicules ; the first twenty-five under the title: 

 "Osteographie; ou, description iconographique comparee du squelette et du 

 systeme dentaire des cinq classes d'animaux vertebres recents et fossiles, pour 

 servir de base a la zoologie et a la geologie par M. H. M. Ducrotay de Blain- 

 ville • • • . Ouvrage accompagne de planches lithographiees sous sa direction 

 par M. J. C. Werner .... Paris, Arthus Bertrand, . . . ." [1839-1855.] 

 The twenty-sixth and last fascicule was issued with the special title above 

 given, titles for the four volumes of text and four of plates, table of contents 

 and index, by the Baillieres in 1864. The subscription price was 2 francs 35 

 centimes per plate ; the price of the twenty-sixth livraison, 45 francs ; and of 

 the whole, on completion, 800 francs, " au lieu de 961 fr." 



The culpable neglect of the publishers to give the dates of publication of the 

 several fascicules has doubtless devolved upon many investigators, as upon the 

 writer, much trouble and annoyance in ascertaining them, and to save to 

 others similar trouble, a collation is here presented, the dates having chiefly 

 been ascertained from Wagner's annual reports in the "Archiv fur Natur- 

 geschichte." The appearance of successive fascicules has not been noticed in 

 the " Bibliographic de la France." 



The titles of the respective monographs given below are those at the upper 

 fourth of the first page of each monograph, and which are the only special 

 titles' published. 



The work is more remarkable as a methodical repertory of facts respecting 

 superficial osteological details, than as a digest exhibiting acute appreciation of 

 the value and subordination of characters and their taxonomical application, 

 or orthodox views respecting classification and the geological succession of 



