ALLEN'S BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CETACEA AND SIRENIA. 503 



1817. [MILLAR, or MILLER, JAMES] Continued. 



This article appeared originally in the 4th ed. of the Encycl. Brit. (1810), according to the 

 preface of the present (5th) ed., and is by the editor, Dr. James Millar. It is as fair a pre- 

 sentation of the subject as could be expected from a writer merely qualified to glean from 

 respectable sources. [558.] 



1818. BLAINVILLE, [H.] DE. Mammiferes, Mammalia. <Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., 



xix, 1818, pp. 1-152. [559.] 



1818. DESMAREST, A. E. Mammiferes fossiles. <Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xix, 1818, 



pp. 152-156. [560.] 



1818. DKSMAREST, A. E. Narwhal, Narwhalus. <^Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxii, 1818, 



pp. 224-228. 



Species: 1. Narwhalus vulgaris, Lacep., p. 224; 2. N. microcephalus, Lac6p., p. 227; 3. N. 



andersoni, Lac6p., p. 228. [561.] 



1818. EGEDE, HANS. A | Description of Greenland. | By Hans Egede, | who was a 

 Missionary in that country | for | twenty-five years. | | A New Edition. 

 | | With an | Historical Introduction | and | a Life of the Author. | Illus- 

 trated ] with a map of Greenland, and numerous engravings on wood. | Sec- 

 ond Edition. | [Vignette.] London: | Printed for T. 'and J. Allman, | Frances 

 Street, Hanover Square; | W. H. Reid, Charing Cross; and Baldwin, Cradock 

 and Joy, | Paternoster Row. | 1818. 8. pp. i-cxviii, 1-225, map and wood- 

 cuts. 



Chap. vi. Of the Greenland Sea Animals, and Sea Fowls and Fishes, pp. 66-99. Cetaceans 

 are treated pp. 66-82. 



For the editio princeps, see 1741. [562.] 



1818. FABRICIUS, OTHO. Zoologiske Bidrag. <^Kongcl. Danske Videnskab.-Selsl. 

 Skrivter, vi, Deel 1 (for 1809-1810), 1818, pp. 57-138. 



2det Bidrag. Om Stub- Hvalen, Balcena Boops, Linn., pp. 63-83. [563.] 



1818. FABRICIUS, OTTO. Nojogtig Beskrivelse over Gronlaeudernes Landdyr-, Fugle- 

 og Fiskefangst med dertil horende Redskaber. <^Kongel. Danske Fidenskab.- 

 Stlsk. Skrivter, vi, Deel 2 (for 1811-1812), 1818, pp. 231-272. 



III. Fiskefangst og dertil horende Kedskaber, pp. 253-272. H valfangst, pp. 253-256. [564. ] 



1318. FREMINVILLE, [C. P. DELAPOIXDE.] Sur une nouvelle espece de Dauphin. 

 <BM. des Sci. par la Soc. philom. de Paris, 1818, pp. 67, 68. 



Delphinus globiceps ? [565 . ] 



1818. HERAUSGEBERS. Ueber den Bau des Beluga (Delphinus albicans Linn. Delphi- 

 napterus beluga Lacdpede). Von Barclay. (Aus Thomson's Annals of Philoso- 

 phy. Vol. ix, p. 233 ff.) <Deutsche8 Archivf. Physiol, iv, 1818, pp. 296-298. 



Auszug. . [566.] 



1818. HOME, E. A description of the teeth of the Delphinus Gangeticus. <Philos. 

 Trans. Land., [cviii], pt. 2, art. xxi, 1818, pp. 417-419, pi. 20. 



Figures of the upper and under jaws and of isolated teeth. 



1818. "KAT, H. D. Dagboek eener reize ter walvisch en- robbenvangst, gedaan in 

 1777 en 1778. Haarlem, Wed. P. Loosjes, 1818. 8. Met eene Kaarfc eii 

 portret." 



Not seen; from Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 240, no. 3493. [568.] 



1818. LACEPEDE, [B. G. F,T.]. Note sur des Cdtacdes des niers voisines du Japon. 

 <^Mem. du Mus. d'Hist. nal., iv, 1818, pp. 467-475. 



Balcena japonica, Balcena lunulata, Balamoptera punctulata, Balcenoptera nigra, Balcenop- 

 tera ccerulescens (p. 473), Balcenoptera maculata, Physeterus sulcatus (p. 474), Delphinus niger 

 (475), spp. nn. 



"Les dessins colories d'apres lesquels j'ai decrit ces huit especes de cetac6es japonois, ont 

 6t6 communiqu6s au Museum royal cl'Histoire naturello, par M. Abel de Remusat, membre 

 de 1'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Us presentent pour les caracteres distinc- 

 tifs, une grande nettet6, et tous ces signes de 1'authenticite et de 1'exactitude que les zoolo- 

 gistes sont maintenant si accoutumes a reconnoitre ; et voici les traits particuliers dc ces huit 

 especes" (p. 409). 



This highly reprehensible piece of work has received just condemnation at the hands of 

 most writers who have had occasion to treat of the Cetacea of the Japan seas, and the spe- 



