492 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



1806. TURTOX, W. Continued. 



Sirenia: 1. Trichechus Durong (sic), 2. T. Manatus, with var. 1. Australia (= African and 

 American Manatees), var. 2. Borcalis (= Ehytina borealis), var. 3, Siren (fabulons), pp. 36, 

 37. The following complete transcript of the account of the Trichechus Manatus Sirenus is a 

 sufficient commentary on the character of the work : 



"3. Siren. Ears erect, sharp-pointed. Inhabits the north-west coast of America, swims 

 around ships with antic gestures. Head resembling a dog ; eyes large ; lips whiskered : body 

 thick, round, tapering downwards; tail divided into 2 unequal lobes; length about 5 

 feet." [479.] 



1807. HOME, E. Observations on the structure of the different Cavities, which con- 



stitute the Stomach of the Whale, compared with those of ruminating Animals, 

 with a View to ascertain the Situation of the digestive Organ. <^Philos. Trans. 

 Lond., [xcvii], pt. 1, art. iv, 1807, pp. 97-102, pll. iii, iv. 



Investigation based on "a Delphinus Delphis of Linnaeus, or small bottle-nose whale of 

 Mr. Hunter." [480.] 



1808. Axox. A Short and true Account of Forty-two Persons [Whalers] who per- 



ished by shipwreck near Spitzbergen, in the year 1G46. <^Pinkerton J s Coil. 

 Voy. and Trav., i, 1808, p. 535. [481.] 



1808. Axox. Third Voyage of the Dutch and Zealanders, by the North, along Nor- 

 way, Moscovy, and Tart'ary, to pass to the kingdoms of Cathay and China, 

 by permission of the Council of the city of Amsterdam, 159G. <^Pinkerton's 

 Coll. Voy. and Trav., i, 1808, pp. 90-127. 



"Newly translated from the Recueil des Voyages, qui ont scrvi a I'etablissement ct aux 

 progrez de la Compagnie dos Indes Orientales. Tom. i, p. 53." 



"Whales described, pp. 93, 94. Very good description of the Northern Right TVhale. [432 ] 



1803. BACSTROM, S. Account of a [Whaling] Voyage to Spitzbergen in the Year 

 1780. By S. Bacstrom, M. D. <Pinkerton's Coll. Voy. and Trav., i, 1808, pp. 

 614-620. 



From Phil Mag., July, 1799. [483.] 



1808. BLUMEXBACH, J. F. Manuel | d'Histoirenaturelle, \ traduit de 1'Allemand, | Do 

 J. Fr. Blumenbach, Professeur a FUuiversito | de Gottingue. | Par Soulange 

 Artaud. | Avec figures. | | Multa fiunt. eadem, sed aliter, | Quiatilian. | | 

 Tome Premier. | [Monogram.] | A Metz, | Chez Collignou, Imprimeur-Li- 

 braire. | . . . [= Names of 3 other publishers.] | | An XI. 1803. 8. pp. 

 i-xvi, 1-528. 



Trichechus manatus, p. 1G4, Les Cetacees (Cetacea), pp. 165-169. A translation of one of the 

 early editions, but which is not stated. The matter relating to the Cetacea is substantially 

 the same as that of the 3d ed., 1788, q. v. [484.] 



1808. LEEMS, K. An Account of the Laplanders of Finmark, their language, man- 

 ners, and religion,by Knud Lecins, Professor of the Lnplandic, with the notes 

 of Gunner, Bishop of Dronthciin, and a Treatise, by Jessen, on the Pagan Re- 

 ligion of the Finns and Laplanders. <^Pinkcrton's Coll. Voy. and Trav., i, 

 1808, pp. 376-490. 



Chap, xiii. Of the Fishery, pp. 431-446. Contains a short account of the "Whales and 

 "Whaleflshery of Finmark, pp. 431-433. 



The original edition of Leems (not seen by me) was published in Danish and Latin r.t 



Copenhagen in 1767, 4, with plates. [485.] 



1808. PHILIPS, C. J. A voyage towards the North Pole, undertaken by his Majesty's 



command, in 1773, by Constantino John Phipps. <^Pinkerton's Co. Voy^ and 



Trav., i, 1808, pp. 538-594. 



Natural history, pp. 578-585. Balcena Mysticetus, Balcena Physalus, p. 579 (=7 lines of no 

 importance). [486.] 



1808. TIEDEMAXX, D. F. Zoologie. | | Zu seinen Vorlesungen entworfen | von | D. 

 Friedrich Tiedemann, | Professor der Anatomie und Zoologie an der Univer- 

 sitat zu | Landshut. | | Erster Band. | Allgemeine Zoologie, Mensch und 

 Siiugthiere. | | Landshut, in der Weberschen Buchhandluug. | | 1808. 

 8. pp. i-xvi, 1-610, 1. 1. 



XII. Ordnung. Fischartige Saugthiere. "Wallfische. Cetacea (Cetaces), pp. 557-585. 



Generalities, 557-570; genera and species, pp. 570-585. 1. Balaena mysticetus, 2* B. islan- 



