1899] LACEPEDE’S “ TABLEAUX” 409 
were corrected, they were ot corrected in vol. xiv. of the “ Quadrupédes ” 
of the Saugrain Buffon. And this fact seems to suggest that the 
seventy volumes issued by Saugrain were all printed in or before 
Van vii. (1799). Why their publication was delayed, or arranged as 
two volumes a month, we may never know. 
It follows, therefore, that— 
Lacepéde’s “ Tableaux,” 1799, exist. 
Their date is 1799. 
All the generic names are Lacepéde’s. 
The specific names in the original tract and in Mém. de I’Inst. are 
Lacepéde’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. RicumMonp. The 
Auk, yol. xiv. No. 4, October 1899, p. 325. 
British Musrum 
(Natural History), 
Lonpon, S. W. 
