484 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



1795. WALCOTT, S. Continued. 



contents.] | Forming an | Universal Display of Nature, | Animate and Inani- 

 mate. | ... [=3 lines]. | | By Sylvanus Walcott, Esq., F. R. S. | Assisted 

 by many gentlemen of eminence. | | Elegantly embellislied with a superb 

 group of folio prints: | Representing several Thousand different Objects . . . 

 [=2 lines]. | | London : | Printed for Alex. Hogg, No. 16, in Paternoster- 

 Row, and sold by all the Booksellers of | Bath, Bristol, . . . [=8 lines, names 

 of other towns in alphabetical order]. No date. fol. pp. 1-542, pll. i-clix [?] 



The plates are not nearly all numbered ; the number of the last one is clix. There is no 

 date on the title-page, but at the bottom of the frontispiece page is engraved in small letters : 

 Published March 21, 1795, by Alex. Hogg, No. 16 Paternoster Row. 



Book III. A New and Complete History and Description of Fishes in general, pp. 200- 

 253, pll. Iviii, Ixi, Ixii, +3 pll. unnumbered. Chap. I. Natural History of Fishes of the Ceta- 

 ceous kind, viz. : The "Whale and its varieties, the Cachalots, the Dolphin, the Grampus, and 

 the Porpus, pp. 202-206. 1. Greenland Whale, pp. 202-204, pi. Ixii, fig. 66. 2. Pike-headed 

 "Whale, p. 204. 3. Round-lipped "Whale, p. 204. 4. Cachalot, or Spermaceti "Whale, pp. 204, 

 205. 5. Great-headed Cachalot. 6. Round-headed Cachalot, p. 205. 7. Dolphin, 8. Gram- 

 pus, and 9. Porpus, pp. 205, 206. There is a figure of the Narwhal, but apparently no descrip- 

 tion. The work is of most interest as a literary curiosity, being a popular compilation, of no 

 scientific value. [441.] 



1796. ABERNETHY, J. Some particulars in the Anatomy of a Whale. <^Philo8. Trans, 



Lond., [Ixxxvi], pt. 1, art. ii, 1796, pp. 27-33. 



On the structure and function of the lymphatic glands. [442.] 



1796. "POSSELT, K. F. Ueber den Gronlandischen Wallfischfang, herausgegehen von 

 A. Niemann. Kiel, 1796. 8." 



Not seen; from Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 246, no. 3546. [443.] 



1796. STEDMAN, J. G. Narrative, | of a five years' expedition against the | Revolted 



Negroes of Surinam, | in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of | South America; | from 

 the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the History of that Country, and | describ- 

 ing its Productions, Viz. | Quadrupeds, Fishes, Reptiles, Trees, Shrubs, Fruits, 

 & Roots ; | with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. | 

 By Capt n . J[ohn]. G[abriel]. Stedman. | Illustrated with 80 elegant Engrav- 

 ings, from the drawings made by the Author. | | Vol. I. [-II]. | | [Vi- 

 gnette.] .... [= quotation, 7 lines]. London. Printed for J. Johnson, S*. 

 Paul's Church Yard, & J. Edwards, Pall Mall. 1796. 2 vols. 4. Engr. 

 title-page, maps and plates. 



Manatee, voL ii, p. 175, fig. pi. facing p. 176 (general description). [444.] 



1796-1810. BLUMENBACH, J. F. Abbildungen | naturhistorischer Gegenstiinde | her- 

 ausgegeben | von | Joh. Fried. Blumenbach. | | N ro 1-100. | | Gottingen | 

 bey Heinrich Dieterich. | 1810 | [1796-1810]. 8. 



Cetaceen. No. 44, Monodon narhwal, text, 2 pp. "Die Abbildung stellt denjenigen Nar- 

 hwal vor, der 1736 in der Hundung der Elbe gestrandet war, und ist aus einem periodischen 

 Blatte jener Zeit, den Hamburgischen Berichten von gelehrten Sachen, genommen." 



No. 74. Balcena loops on plate, U. rostrata in text. Original figure of a specimen 52 feet 

 long stranded on the coast of Holland, between Sandfort and "Wyk op Zee, in Dec., 1791. Also 

 figure of the head of another example, copied from Sibbald's "Phalainologia." 



No. 84. Physeter macrocephalus. ' ' Hier diese Abbildung ist von dein meisterhaften grossen 

 aber seltnen Blatte genommen, worauf der vortrcffliche Kunstler J. Saenredam den 60 Fuss 

 langen Pottfisch der im Dec. 1601 am Ufer von Beverwyk gestrandet war, nach dem Leben 

 vorgestellt hat." 



No. 94. Balcena mysticetus, "aus Hesel Gerard's descriptio geograpMca transitus supra 

 terras A mericanas in Chinam." 



No. 95. Delphinus delphis. "Die Abbildung ist von einer trefflichen Zeichnnng unsers 

 unvergesslichen G. Forster's genommen." 



Eigner Tafel ist mit zwei Seiten von Texte vorsehen. [445.] 



1797. ABERNETHY, JOH. Eiuige Eigenheiten in der Zergliederung des Wallfisches. 



<Reil'8 Arch.fiir Physiol., ii, 1797, pp. 232-239. 



Uebersetzung aus der Phil. Trans, roy. Soc. London for 1796, pt. 1, pp. 27 et seqq. [446.] 



