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1856. — Burmeister, H. ErUiuternngen zur Fauna Brasiliens, enthaltend Abbilduugen und ansfUhr- 



licbe Beschreibungen neuer oder UDgeniigend bekannter Thierarten von Dr. Herin. Burmeister. 



1 vol. Folio. Berlin, 1856. 

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



Philadelphia, 1856. 4°. xi, 133 pp. = Smiths. Cont. to Knowledge, viii, art. 5. 

 Iteidy, J. Description of some remains of extinct mammalia. <^ Jonrn. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 



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

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



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



viii, 1856, pp. 311,313. 

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



Territory. < Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. viii, 1856, pp. 88-90. 

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



< Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. viii, 18.56, pp. 255, 256. 

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

 Cook, of the State geological survey, under the direction of Dr. W. Kitchell. < Proc. Acad. 

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 [Macrophoca atlantica, n. sp., described p. 220.] 



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

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



Iieidy, 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. Phila. viii, 1856, p. 59. 



Pucheran, J. Essai de ddtermination du caractfere faunique de I'Europe et du nord de I'Asie. 



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



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

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

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

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

 ical route for a railroad from the Mississippi Eiver to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the 

 direction of the Secretary of War in 1853-56, 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 coDtents of tbis volume (whicb is " Part i " of a " General report on the zoology of the several Pacific 

 Kailroad routes") consist entirely of "Mammals, by Spencer F. Baird". It is a work otherwise known as 

 " Mammals of North America ", the text having been reissued, in 1859, with the plates, and with the plates of 

 the other volumes of P.icific Railroad reports, and others. 



It is a systematic account of the mammals (exclusive of Cetaeea, Chiroptera, Sirenia, and Pinnipedia) of 

 North America, about 220 in number, and is by far the most important and most authoritative treatise which 

 has ever appeared upon the subject.] 



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

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 178. 



Blasius, J. H. Naturgeschichte der Siiugethiere Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Liinder 

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

 schweig, Druck und Verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohu, 1857. Also entitled: Fauna der 



Wirbelthiere Deiitschlands und der angrenzenden Liinder von Mitteleuropa Erster 



Band, Siiugethiere, mit zahlreichen Abbildungen im Texte. 



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

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Eennicott, R. The quadrupeds of Illinois injurious and beneficial to the farmer. <[ Rep. of 

 the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 18.56, 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. 



