APPENDIX. 183 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



nr^HOUGH the fliortnefs of my flay at Spitfbergen, 

 -^ and the multiplicity of occupations, in which I 

 was neceflarily employed, during the greateft part of that 

 time, rendered it impoflible for me to make many ob- 

 fervations on its natural productions ; yet as there are 

 among thofe few fbme which have not before been made 

 public, I am in hopes that this article will not be found 

 wholly unprofitable. The following catalogue, imperfect 

 as it is, may ferve to give a general idea- of the fparing 

 produdlions of that inhofpitable climate. 



As modern naturalifts have formed the technical terms 

 of their fcience out of the Latin, it becomes neceflary 

 to make fome ufe of that language, in order to render 

 the defcriptions of fuch things, as are new, intelligible to, 

 thofe for who(e ufe they are intended : I fliall alvvaysj 

 however, annex Englifh names to the fcientifick ones, 

 when fuch are to be found. 



MAMMALIA. 



