ALLEN'S BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CETACEA AND SIRENIA. 485 



1797. " BORKHAUSEN, MoR. BALTH. Deutsche Fauna, oder kurzgefassfce Naturge- 

 schichte der Thiere Deutschlands. 1 Thl. Siiugetliiere uud Vogel. 8. 

 Frankfurt a. M. 1797." 



Not seen; title from Carus and Engelnaann. 1447.] 



1797. CUVIER, G. Sur les narines des ce"tace"s. <^Bull. des Sci. par la Soc. philom. 

 de Paris, i, 1797, pp. 26-29. [448.] 



1797. [CuviER. G.] M6moire sur Porgane de 1'ouie dans les Ce"tace"s. <^Bull. des 



Sci. par la philom. de Paris, i, 1797, p. 99. 



Extrait. [449.] 



1798. COLNETT, JAMES. A | Voyage | to the | South Atlantic | and round | Capo 



Horn | into the | Pacific Ocean, | for the purpose of extending the | Sperma- 

 ceti Whale Fisheries, | and other objects of Commerce, by ascertaining | the 

 Ports, Bays, Harbours, and Anchoring Berths, | in certain Islands and Coasts 

 in those Seas, | at which the ships of the British merchants might be refit- 

 ted. | | Undertaken and performed | By Captain James Colnett, | of the 

 Royal Navy, in the ship Rattler. | | London : | Printed for the Author, | by 

 W. Bennett, Marsham Street, Westminster. | . . . . [=3 lines, names of book- 

 sellers]. | | 1798. 4. pp. i-iv, i-vi, i-xviii, 1-179, maps and plates. 



Contains passim references to "Whales seen or taken at various points, etc. Also a plate . 

 giving an outline figure of "Physeter, or Spermaceti Whale, Drawn by Scale, from one killed 

 on the coast of Mexico, August, 1793, and hoisted in on Deck," giving the topography of the 

 animal with reference to manner of cutting in, etc. There is also a half-page of descriptive 

 text (engraved on the plate), with also reference to its food, habits, etc. The figure has been 

 many times copied in works relating to Whaling. [450.] 



1798. CUVIER, [G.] Ueber die Naseul&cher mid das Geruchsorgan der Cetacecn; 

 aus eiiier vom B. Cuvier im Nationalinstitut vorgelesenen Abhandlung. Mag. 

 Encycl. < Foigt's Mag. der NaturTcunde, i, St. 3, 1798, pp. 34-40. 



TJebersetzung aus Mayas, encycl. de Millin, iii, 1797, pp. 299. . [451.] 



1798. CUVIER, G. Tableau | ele"mentaire | de PHistoire naturelle | des Animaux. | 

 Par G. Cuvier, | de 1'Iustitut national de France, | . . . . [titles, 7 lines]. | | 

 A Paris, | Baudouin, Imprimeur du Corps le"gislatif et de ] 1'Iustitut national, 

 place du Carrousel, N. 662. | An 6. [=1798.] 8. pp. i-xvi, 1-710, pll. i-xiv. 



Des Mammiferes, pp. 83-179 : Mammiferes Amphibies (pp. 170-173) = Pinnipedia + Sirenia. 

 Sirenia: 1. Trichecus dugong, p. 172 ; 2. Trichecus manatus, p. 173. 



Mammiferes C6tac6s = Cetacea (pp. 173-179): 1. Delphinus phoccena; 2. D. delphis ; 

 3* D. orca, p. 175; 4. Physeter macroce&halus (="Le cachalot trumpo, Bonnaterre, Encycl., 

 planches des cetaces, pi. 8, f. 1") ; 5. P. maximus, sp. n. (= "idem., ibid., pi. 7, fig. 2"), p. 176; 

 6. Balcena mysticetus, L., p. 177; 7. B. physalus; 8. Monodon, p. 178. 



Physeter maximus, sp. n. [452.] 



1798. [LONDON SOCIETY, etc.'] [Premiums offered for "Taking Porpoises" and for 

 "Oil from Porpoises."] <^ Trans. London Soc. Encour. Arts, Man., and Com., 

 xvi, 1798, pp. 84, 85. 



These oifers of premiums were annually renewed for a considerable period. See later vols. 

 of these Trans. [453.] 



1798. THUNBURG, C. P. Beskrifuing | pa | Svenske Djur. | | Forsta Classen, | om | 



Mammalia | eller Daggande Djuren, | af | Carl Peter Thunburg, | Riddare af 

 Kongl. Maj its Wasa-Orden, | Medicinje och Botauices Professor | i Upsala. | 

 [Vignette.] | | Upsala, | Tryckt hos J. F. Edman, K. Acad. Boktr. | 1798. 

 8. 11. 6, pp. 1-100. 



Cete, pp. 90-100. 1. Jialcena, mysticetus, p. 96; 2. B. physalus, p. 97; 3. Physeter macro- 

 cephalus, p. 98; 4. Delphiniis phocania ; 5. D. Orca, p. 99. [454.] 



1799. ANON. "Histoire des peches, des decouvertes et des dtablissemens des hollan- 



dois dans les mere du Nord. Ouvrage traduit du Hollandois par B. de Reste. 

 Avec des notes, (t^S) cartes et ligures. Paris, We. Nyon, 1799. 3 dlu. 8." 



"Eene vertaliuj: van liet werk: De AValvischvangst, Amst. 1784 [7. vT\. Vermeerderd met 

 aanteekeningen eu eeue historische vcrhandcling over Groenland en IJsland, volgens Crantz 

 [sic], Egede, de la Peyrcre, Horrebow e. a." 



Not seen; title and comment from Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 244, no. 3528. [455.] 



