Art. XT III. Preliminary I<ist of Works and Pa- 

 pers Relating to the Mammalian Orders Cete and 

 Sirenia* 



By Joel Asapli Allen. 



OWING to the illness of the author, which prevented his 

 revision of the proofsheets, it was necessary to stop the 



printing of the "List" at the end of the year 1840. The * 



f 

 lent instalment comprises only a little more than one-third 



of the article ; the remainder will be published as soon as the 

 author's health renders it practicable. 



J. A. ALLEN. * 



Cambridge, Sept., 1882. 



reached in the collection ol titles nere 



of the subject of the Whale-fishery, for example, has been intentionally 



wholly neglected, namely, legislation for its promotion and regula- 



tion by different governments. This alone would furnish hundreds of 



titles, which, while having only a remote bearing on the natural history 



of Whales, would still have some importance in regard to the history of 



Whaling. 



The titles here given have been taken by the writer, when not oth- 

 erwise stated, from the works and papers mentioned, and the com- 

 ments, unless otherwise indicated, are based on personal examination 

 of the same. Many titles relating to the Whale-fishery have been copied 

 from D. Mulder Bosgoed's invaluable "Bibliotheca Ichthyologia et Pis- 



