336 Miscelhineoust. 



till piiblique qu'cn 1838. Ccpendant la dcscripHon dos acalephes 

 de ht Coquille a soiiveiit ele citoe sous sa date dans pliisieurs publi- 

 cations."' And, again, a little later (p. oG) he says of the portion 

 " Zoophytes " : — " Tire a part ct niise dans le commerce en 1829." 



Lesson's authority may be taken as conclusive, of course, in this 

 matter, and we may therefore at once expunge vol. ii. pt. 2 from 

 our previous record. 



A re-inspection of the entries in the ' Bibliographic de la France' 

 shows that livr. 27 " et dernier" wasyb/Zo, and consequently refers 

 to the Atlas ; similarly we conclude that the livr, 28 and last 

 recorded in the Ann. Soc. £nt. Fr., torn, i, p. IIG, as containing 

 pis. with text, also refers to the Atlas. 



As regards the definite statement in the Bibl. Frang. that livr. 25 

 contained the Crustacea and Insects, this being the only one of the 

 entries in that work where a statement of contents is made, we are 

 of opinion that it is a clerical error, probably due to the transcriber 

 seeing some announcement on the wrapper concerning the forth- 

 coming parts, and in his haste assuming that it had to do with the 

 part before him ; for if the number of sheets given for livr. " 16 " 

 [i. e, 17], 2d, and 2Q be added together they amount to 59, or 

 exactly those of vol. ii. pt. 1. The unrecorded contents of livr. 18 

 were probably like the succeeding six, a wrai)per and plates. 



W'c would therefore amend our former conclusions as follows : — 



Livr. " 16." 3 sheets [=Vol. IF. pt. 1, pp. 1-24]. Bibl. Fran9. 12 June, 1830. 

 18. [W rapper and plates.] 

 19.1 

 20.1 

 o\ I 

 7}o y 1 wrapper and 6 plates each. Dates as above given. 



OQ I 

 —J- I 



24.; 



2."i. 27 sheets [= Vol. II. pt. 1, pp. 25-2401. Bibl. Fran9. 12 Xov. 1831. 

 26. 29 „ L .. .. 241-47 it „ „ 10 Dec. „ 



27 and last of Atlas : wrapper [and pLitesJ. „ „ 28 Jan. 1832. 



28 [60 sheets = Vol. II. pt. 2. Preface dated 15 IS'ov. 1838]. 1838. 



This was probably the Livr. 28 and last received by tiie Soeiete 

 Geographique de France on 5 April, 1839 (Bull. Soc. Geogr. Fr., 

 scr. ii. toin. xi. pp. 362-3). The authors' copies of the section 

 " Zoopliytes " were sent out in 18:^9. 



In corroboration of the above we may mention that Guerin refers 

 to the year 1837 on pp. 212 and 220, while on p. 272 the year 

 1838 is (juoted for the finst time. 



The citation of this work by Laporte in 1S32, by Eoisduval in 

 1835, and others, as pointed out by G. W. Kirkaldy ('Entomologist,' 

 XXXV. 1902, p. 310), is accounted for by the now widely recognized 

 fact that the contemporary writers working on the different French 

 Voyages, then in course of compilation, often interchanged the 

 proofs of their several works. Tliis was done even in the days of 

 Erxleben and Pallas, and much confusion in nomenclature has 

 been caused thereby. 



