482 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



1793. " DONNDORFF, JOH. AUG. Handbucli der Thiergeschi elite. Nacli den besten 

 Quellen u. neusten Beobachtungen zum gemeinniitz. Gebrauche. gr. 8. 

 Leipzig, 1793." 



Not seen; title from Carus and Engelmann. [428.] 



1793. [LONDON SOCIETY, etc.'] [Premium for] Gun for throwing Harpoons, [and for] 

 Taking Whales by the Gun-Harpoon. <^ Trans. London Soc. Encour. Arts, 

 Man., and Com., xi, 1793, pp. 335, 336. 



These offers of premiums were annually renewed by the society for many years. See sub- 

 sequent volumes of the society's Trans. [429.] 



1793. " PASTEUR, J. D. Beknopte natuurlijke historic der zoogende dieren. Leyden, 

 Honkoop en Mortier, 1793. 3 din. met pi. 8." 

 "Ziealdaar: iii, bl. 305-393: Zoogende waterdieren. " 

 Not seen; title and comment from Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 170, no. 2689. [430.] 



1793. ST. JOHN [DECREVECCEUR],J. HECTOR. Letters | from an | American Farmer, | 

 describing | certain provincial situations, | manners, and customs, | and con- 

 veying | some idea of the state | of the people of | North America. | | Writ- 

 ten to a friend in England, | By J. Hector St. John, [de Crevecoeur]. | A 

 Farmer in Pennsylvania. | | Philadelphia : | From the Press of Matthew 

 Carey. | March 4, M. DCC. XCIII. 12, pp. i-viii, 9-240. 



Substantially the same as the ed. prin., 1782, with, however, the omission of the maps and 

 the references to them. The "letters" relating to the Nantucket Whalefishery, etc., are at 

 pp. 118-136. For the character of the matter see ed. of 1782. [431.] 



1793. SINCLAIR, JOHN. The | Statistical Account | of | Scotland. | Drawn up from 



the Communications | of the | Ministers | of the | Different Parishes. [ | 

 By Sir John Sinclair, Bart. | | Volume Fifth. | " Ad consilium de republica 

 dandum, caput est nosse reinpublicam." | Cicero de Orat. lib. ii. | | Edin- 

 burgh: | printed and sold by William Creech; | . . . . [=5 lines, names of 

 other booksellers]. | j M,DCC,XCIII. 8. pp. i-vii, 1-591. 



A "list of the different kinds of Fish, which are found in the river and frith of Clyde," 

 pp. 535-538. A nominal list, including the following species of Cetaceans (p. 533) : Blunt- 

 headed Whale, Physeter mierops,- Grampus, orBucker, Delphinus orca; Porpoise, or Pellock, 

 D. phoccena. [432.] 



1793-96. "EBERT, JOH. JAC. Naturlehre (n. Naturgesch. ) fur die Jugend. 3 Bde., 

 3Aufl. 8. Leipzig, 1793-96. (1,2 Aufl., 1776-87.)" 

 "Not seen ; title from Carus and Engelmann. Cited by Donndorff and others. [433.] 



1794. ANON. Progress of the Whale Fishery at Nantucket. <Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 



for the year 1794, iii, 1794, p. 161. 



A brief chronological history, 1690 to 1785. [434.] 



1794. MACY, Z. A short Journal of the first settlement of the island of Nantucket, 



with some of the most remarkable things that have happened since, to the 



present time. By Zaccheus Macy. <^Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. for the year 1794, 



iii, 1794, pp. 155-156 (. e.,160). 



Of the Whale Fishery, pp. 157, 158. A brief but important original account of the origin 

 of the Nantucket Whale-fishery. [435.] 



1794. PALLAS, S. P., et J. B. LAMARCK. Voyages | du | Professeur Pallas, | dans 

 plusieurs Provinces | de PEmpire de Kussie | et | dans 1'Asie septentrionale ; | 

 Traduitsdel'allemandparleC. Gauthier | de la Peyronie. | Nouvelle Edition, | 

 Revue et enrichie de Notes par les CC. Lamarck, profes- | seur de Zoologie au 

 Museum national d'Histoire naturelle; | et Langles, Sous-Garde des Manu- 

 scrits de la Biblio- | theque natiouale, pour les Langues Arabe, Persane, 

 Tatare- | Mantchou, &c. | Tome Premier [-huitieme]. | | A Paris, | Chez 

 Maradau, Libraire, rue du Cimetiere | Andr6-des-Arcs ; n. 9. | | L'Au II de 

 la R6publique [= 1794]. 8 vols. 8. 



The title of vol. viii varies from the above by substitution of the following between "Nou- 

 velle edition" and the number of the volume: 



Appendix, | Contenant les descriptions des Animaux et des Ve'ge'taux obser- 

 ve"s | dans les Voyages du Professeur Pallas, et cite"s ou mentionne"s | dans les 



