504 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



1818. LACEPEDE, [B. G. ET.] Continued. 



cies, when not wholly ignored, go to swell the list of those "which are indeterminable. Allow 

 ing that the drawings were reasonably correct, which is far from probable, the characters 

 drawn from them are so vague and general that the diagnoses are valueless as a scientific 

 basis. There is, furthermore, no assurance that the drawings were even attempts at fac- 

 simile representations of natural objects. "With the nine species described six years later by 

 Chamisso from Japanese wooden models, and those described by Rafinesque, Lesson, and 

 others, from observation of animals swimming in the sea, they form altogether a fine rubbish 

 pile, but one which need give little trouble, since the species are quite unworthy of any at- 

 temp at recognition, only showing to how great a depth of folly the vanity of authorship may 

 sometimes lead. [569.] 



1818. O'REILLY, B. Greenland, | the | Adjacent Seas, | and | the North-west Passage 

 | to | the Pacific Ocean, | illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Strait, | during 

 the Summer of 1817. | | With charts and numerous plates, | from drawings 

 of the author taken on the spot. | | By | Bernard O'Reilly, Esq. | | Lon- 

 don: | printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, | 47, Paternoster-Row. | | 

 1818. 1 v. 4. pp. i-viii, 1-293, pll. i-xviii+3 charts. 



Chap, v, Arctic Zoology, pp. 96-148. Monodon Monoceros, pp. 104-107. "Balcena Mysti- 

 cetus (the common "Whale)," pp. 107-130. pi. x, fig. 3, transverse section of body at lumbar 

 region, fig. 4, section of tail, fig. 5, animal, flag. orig. "Balcena Mysticetus (the finner)," pp. 

 130, 131. Delphinus Orca, pp. 132-134. Delphinus Leucas, pp. 134, 135, pi. x, fig. 1. There 

 are incidental allusions to other species at pp. 131. 132. 



Although the author was not without opportunity of observing the northern Cetacea, and 

 especially the Balcc.na mysticetus, he contributes nothing of importance to the subject, but 

 on the other hand, displays gross ignorance respecting many points touched upon. The 

 name Balcena mysticetus is first employed in its correct sense (p. 107), but later, doubtless by 

 inadvertence, is used to designate "the finner "Whale." From one who describes the "Sword 

 Grampus" as having the dorsal fin long and bony, growing longer with age, etc., and who 

 states that the Balcena mysticetus "received its specific name from the Scriptural record of 

 the adventure of Jonas," little can be expected in the way of new information. [570.] 



1818. &AABYE, HANS EGEDE. Greenland: | being | Extracts from a Journal | kept in 



that Country | in the Years 1770 to 1778. | By HansEgede Saabye, | Formerly 

 ordained Minister in the Districts of Clanshavn and Christianshaab ; | now 

 Minister of Udbye, in the Bishopric of Fiilmen ; and | Grandson of the cele- 

 brated Hans Egede. | (Now first published.) | | To which is prefixed | An 

 Introduction; containing some | Accounts of the Manners of the Greeulanders, 



| and of the | Mission in Greenland ; | with various interesting information 

 respecting | the Geography, &c., of that Country; | And illustrated by a | 

 Chart of Greenland, | By G. Fries. | | Translated from the German. | | 

 London : | Printed for Boosey and Sons, | 4 Broad Street, Royal Exchange, 



| | 1818. 8. pp. i-viii, 1-293. 



There is a short account of the Whalefishery, as carried on by the Greenlanders, at pp. 29, 

 30. Reference to trade in "unicorn horns," p. 161. Chapter xiii. The Whale found, pp. 190- 

 195, recounts the behavior of the Greenlanders on finding a "Whale, and their manner of pro. 

 cedure in saving its products. 



For the ed. prin. see 1741. Besides the German edition of this work, of which the present 

 is a translation, a Dutch version appeared in 1818. See Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 247, no. 3552. [571.] 



1819. ANON. Skeleton of a Whale found in Clackmaunanshire. <^Blaclcwood?8 Edln. 



Mag., v, 1819, p. 737. 



Account of the exhumation of the skeleton, with measurements of some of the principal 

 bones. [572.] 



1819. ANSPACH, L. A. A | History | of the | Island of Newfoundland : | containing a 

 | Description of the Island, | The Banks, the Fisheries, | and | Trade of New- 

 foundland, | and the | Coast of Labrador. | Illustrated with Two Maps. | | 

 By the | Rev. Lewis Amadeus Anspach, | Late a Magistrate of that Island 

 and Missionary for the District | of Conception Bay. | | London : | Printed 

 for the Author, | And Sold by T. and J. Allman, Princes-Street, Hanover- | 

 Square ; and J. M. Richardson, 23, Coruhill, opposite | the Royal Exchange. 

 | | 1819. 8. pp. i-xxviii, 1-512. 



Contains, pp. 396-399, a short notice of the "Whale-fishery formerly carried on along the 

 eastern coast of North America. [573.] 



