442 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



1738. ARTEDI, P. Continued. 



aliis | exoticis. | Ichtbyologiae Pars V. | [Vignette.] Lugduni Batavorum, | 

 Apud Conradum Wishoff, 1738. b. 1. i, pp. 1-102 (i. e., 112), 11. 2. 



Ordo v. Plagiuri, Balaena, G. Pise. 48, pp. 10G-107. [209.] 



1738. EGEDE, HAXS. Omstaandelig og udf0rlig | Relation, | Angaaende | den Gr0n- 

 landske Missions | Begyndelse og Fortsasttelse, | samt | hvad ellers mere der 

 ved Landets Recognoscering, | dets Beskaffevhed, og Indbyggernes Vaesen 

 og | Leve-Maade vedkommende, er befunden; | Af | Hans Egede, | F0rst Guds 

 Ords u-vserdig Lserere for Bogens Menigheder | udi Nord-Landene derester 

 Kongelig Dansk | Missionair udi Gr0nland. | [Vignette.] | Kjobenhaven. 

 1738. | Trykt hos Job. Cbrist. Groth, boende paa Graabr0dre-Torv. 4. 11. 10, 

 pp. 1-408.' 



Contains passing references to "Whalefishing by the Greenlanders. There is a German 

 translation, Hamburg, 1740, 4. [210.] 



1738. HAMPE, JOHN HENRY. A Description of the same Narhual, communicated by 

 John Henry Hampe, M.D.F.R. S. <P/nZ. Trans., Lond., xl, no. 447, 1738, pp. 

 149-150. 



A further and rather more explicit account of the external characters of the specimen re- 

 ferred to below (see next title). [211.] 



1738. STEIGERTAHL, Dr. Part of a Letter from Dr. Steigertahl, F. R. S., to Sir Hans 

 Sloane, Bart. Pres. R. S., giving an Account of a Narhual or Unicorn Fish, lately 

 taken in tbe River Ost, Dutcby of Bremen, dated at Hanover ^-^ 1736. Trans- 

 lated from tbe French by T. S. M. D., &c. <^PUlos. Trans., Lond., xl, no. 447, 

 1738, pp. 147-149, pi. i, fig. 1. 



Monodon monoceros,- account of capture and external appearance of a specimen taken 

 January, 1735, in the river Ost, Bremen. PI. i, fig. 1, animal, from "the Figure engrav'd and 

 printed at Hamburg.'' [212.] 



1739-1804. WAGENAAR, J. , and others. " Staat (Tegenwoordige) der Vereenigde Neder- 

 landen (door J. Wagenaar e. a.). Amsterdam, Tirion, 1739-1804. 23 din. 

 gr. 8. Met platen en kaarten." 



"... "Walvischvangst, door de West-Indische maatschappij zonder voordeel ondernomen, i, 

 1)1. 533. Beginsels der walvischvangst, bl. 588. Wetten omtrent dezelve, bl. 592. Waar zij 

 geschiede, bl. 593. Onderzoek of er de reeders voordeel bij hebben, bl. 599. Kosten op de 

 uitrustinfi, enz., bl. 501, 506. "Walvischbaarden, bL 597, 599, 608. Walvischspek, hoe dik, 

 bl.598." 

 Not seen ; title and references from Bosgoed, op. tit., p. 210, no. 3170% [213.] 



1740. FRISCH, JOHANN LEONHARD. De Phocsena in Fomeranise lacu quodam inventa. 

 <^Miscel. Berolinensla, vi, 1740, p. 124, pi. vi. 



Phoccena communis. 1 page of text and fig. of animal. [214.] 



1740. HERRARA, A. DE. Tbe General | History | of the vast | Continent and Islands | 

 of | America, | Commonly call'd, Tbe | West-Indies, | from | Tbe First dis- 

 covery tbereof : | With the best Accounts tbe People could give of their | 

 Antiquities. | Collected from the Original Relations | sent to tbe Kings of 

 Spain. | | By Antonio de Herrara, | Historiographer to His Catholick Ma- 

 jesty. | | Translated into English by Capt. John Stevens. | | Vol. I[-VI]. 

 | | Illustrated with Cuts and Maps. | | The Second Edition. | | Lon- 

 don, | Printed for Wood and Woodward in Paternoster-Row. | MDCCXL. 

 6 vols. 8. 



The Manati, vol. i, p. 278. For additional comment, see edd. of 1728. [215.] 



1740. KLEIN, J. T. lacobi | Theodori Klein | Historise | Piscium | Naturalis | Promo- 

 vendse | Missus primus | de | Lapillis eorumqve Numero | in | Craniis Pisci- 

 um, | cum Praefatione: | de | Piscium auditu. | Accesserunt | I: Anatome Tur- 

 sionum | II. Observata in Capite Raise. | | Virgil. V. ^Eneid. 239. | Dixit: 

 eumque imis sub fluctibus audiit omnis Nereidum Phorcique Chorus. | Cum 

 Figuris. | [Vignette.] | | Gedani, Litteris Schreiberianis. 1740. 4. 1. 1, 

 pp. 1-35. 



