988 MONOGRAPHS OP NORTH AMERICAN RODENTIA. 



by Paul Allen, esq. | Revised and abridged by the omission of unimportant de- | tails, ■with an 

 introduction and notes, | by Archibald M'Vickar. | In two volumes. | Vol. i[-ii]. | Now York, 

 Harper & Brothers, publishers, | Franklin Square, 1868. 



[Two vols. 18°, some of the issues forming part of Harper's series, " The Family Library", Vol. i, pp. i-vi, 

 i*-v*, Tii-li, 53—371, 3 maps. Vol. ii, pp. i-x, 11-39.1, 3 maps. ( >Vol. ii. Appendix, "Farther ennmeration and 

 description of the qaadrapeds, birds, tishes, and plants noticed during the expedition", pp. 3.39-.378.) 



Memorand;i of ihe dates of the successive issues, raost of which consisted of ii50 copies : — September, 1842 ; 

 January, 1843; May, 1843; January, 1844; July, 184.'i; April, 1847; May, 1850; August, 1851; June, 1855; April. 

 1858; November, 1860; rebru,ary, 1868; March, 1871 (vol. ii) ; April, 1873 (vol. ii ; February, 1874 (vol. ii) ; De- 

 cember, 1875 (vol. i) ; in all fourteen issues of the whole work, under sixteen different dates. 



This is an editorial abridgment, or digest, of the original of 1814, q. v., faithfully and, on the whole, judi- 

 ciously executed. The natural.history chapter, besides being relegated to an appendix, is transposed as to its 

 botanical and zoological portions. It is furthermore abridged at the editor's discretion, the omissions being 

 indicated by asterisks. A new feature is foot-note references to the pages of the body of the work on which 

 the various species were before mentioned. This is a valuable set of cross-references, for the narrative ac- 

 counts scattered through the work are often no less important than the formal notices themselves.J 



1843. — Harlan, R. Ilemarks on Prof. Owen's letter. [About Harlan's notice of new fossil mammalia.] 



<Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, xlv, 1843, pp.20S-211. 

 1843-45. — Gray, J. B. Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Sulphur, uuder the command of Captain Sir 



Edward Belcher Parts i, ii. Mammalia. By J. E. Gray. 4^. London, 1843-45. 



18il4. — Gregg, J. Commerce of the prairies. 2 vols. 12°. Philadelphia, 1844. 



[Contains interesting notices of some of the larger mammals of the plains; — bison, elk, deer, bear, wolvee, 

 prairie.dogs, etc.] 

 Schubert, G. H. Mittheilung von Correspondenzen aus Labrador [iiber seine Landsaugetfaiere, 

 Wasser-, Laud- und Strandv5gel]. < Muuchen. Bull. Akad. 1844, col. 121-126, 129-133; 

 Milnchen. Gelehrte Anz. sviii, 1844, col. 418-422. 



1845. — Pucheran, J. Description de quelques mammifferes am6ricains. <^ Kevue Zool. viii, 1845, pp. 



33.->-3:i7, 3b9-373. 

 1846. — Carpenter, W. M. Remarks on some fossil bones recently brought to New Orleans from 



Tennessee and from Texas. <[ Am. Journ. Sci. and Alts (2), i, 1846, art. xii, pp. 244-2C0, with 



4fi^g. 

 Falconer, H., and Cautley, P. T. Fauna antiqua sivaleusis, being the fossil zoology of tho 



Sewalih Hills, in the north of India [Edited by Hugh Falconer.] Letterpress.— Part i. 



Proboscidea. 8°. 64 pp. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 65 Cornhill, 1846. 

 Godman, J. D. Ameiican natural history To which is added his last work, The ram- 

 bles of a naturalist, with a biographical sketch of the author. In 2 volumes. 3d ed. Phil.i- 



delphia, Uriah Hunt & Son, 184t). Vol. i, eiig. title, 345 pp. (xiii -|- 332), 27 pU. Vol. ii, eng. 



title. :!;!7 pp., 22 pll. 

 HalloTveU, E. [Description of the locality whence a collection of fossil bones presented to the 



academy by Mr. Wm. PaucoJst had been obtained, and an enumeration of the same.] <Proc. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. i;i, 1846, p. 130. 

 OMven, R. Observations on certain fossils from the collection of the Academy of Natural 



Sciences of Philadelphia. < Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. iii, 1846, pp. 93-96. 



1846-54. — Audubon, J. J., and Bachman, J. The viviparous quadrupeds of North America 



New York, 1846-54. 3 vols. Roy. 8°. Vol. i, pub. by J. J. Audubon, 1846, pp. xiv, 1,389, pll. 1-50. 

 Vol. ii, pub. by V. G. Audubon, 1851, titls, pp. 334, 1 1., pll. 51-100. Vol. iii, pub. by same, 

 1853-54 (entitled " The quadrupeds of North America", date 1854 on title-page), 1 p. 1., pp. v, 

 348, pll. 101-155. 



[The plates of this work are said to have been originally published in numbers, in oblong folio, without test, 

 beginning as far back as 1840. The plates in the editiou .ibove given are in roy. 8^, iuterc.ilatod with the text. 



Another edition or reprint, in roy. 8°, plates intercalated, appeals, pub. by V. G. Audubon, in numbers, 

 1851-54, designed to be bound in 3 vo's. The copy examined is as follows:— "The tinadrupeds of Xorth Amer- 

 lea ... . Vol. i. New York, published by V. G. Audubon. 1851 ", pp. i-viii, 1-.384, pll. 1-50 , Vol. ii (no title-page), 

 pp. 1-334, 1 1., pll 51-100. Vol. iii, 1854, 1 p. 1., pp. i-v, 1-348, pll. 101-l.'i5. Vols, ii and iii thus seem to bo identical 

 with the originals. Though vol. iii is dated 1854, pp. 1-254 are said to have appeared io 1853, tlie remainder 

 in 1854. 



These authors treat of 197 species, of which about 160 are flgareil. Few are here described as new, the 

 original descriptions having mostly appeared elsewhere. Seoe. ^. under dates 1839 and 1841. Thi' technical 

 portions of the work are supposed to be mainly attributable to Bacbraan, tho otlicr iiulbor having attended to 

 tho illustrations and portions of the biograuhical matter. Many of the plates were drawn by J. W. Audubon.] 



