ALLEN'S BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CETACEA AND SIRENIA. 509 



1820. SCORESBY, W., jr. Continued. 



v. Account of the Davis' Straits Whale-Fishery, and a comparison with that of Greenland, 

 with Statements of Expences and Profits of a Fishing Ship, pp. 382-396. Chap. vi. Methods 

 of Extracting Oil and Preparing Whalebone, with a Description of these Articles, and 

 remarks on the uses to which the several products of the Whale-Fishery are ap- 

 plied, pp. 397-437. Uhap. vii. Narrative of Proceedings on board of the Ship Esk, during 

 a Whale-Fishing Voyage to the coast of Spitzbergen, in the year 1816, pp. 438-488. 

 Appendix, pp. 489-558. I. Abstract of the Acts of Parliament at present in force for 

 the Regulation of the Whale-fishery of Greenland and Davis' Straits, pp. 491-505. II. 

 Some Remarks on the most advantageous Dimensions of a Whale-Ship, [and] Further No- 

 tices respecting the Fortifications of a Greenland Ship, pp. 506-509. III. Schedule of the 

 Principal Fishing Apparatus necessary for a Ship, of 300 tons burden or upwards, intended 

 to be employed in the Greenland Trade, pp. 509-511. IV. . . . Manner of Mustering the Crew 

 of Whale-Ships ... pp. 512-518. V. Account of a Trial respecting the right of the Ship Ex- 

 periment, to a Whale struck by one of the Crew of the Neptune ; Gale v. Wilkinson, pp. 518- 

 521. VI. Signals used in the Whale-fishery, pp. 521-525. VII. Account of Some Experiments 

 for determining the Relations between the Weight and Measure, in certain quantities of 

 "Whale-Oil, pp. 525-528. VIII. Some account of the Whale Fishery conducted in the Southern 

 Seas, pp. 529-537. IX. On the Anomaly in the Variation of the Magnetic Needle, as observed 

 on Ship-board, pp. 537-554. X. Explanation of the Plates, pp. 554-558. 



Scoresby's Arctic Regions is well known as one of the most important contributions to the 

 history of the Greenland Whale (Balcena mysticetus) and the Northern Whale-fishery extant, 

 and as the source whence many later writers on the subject have largely derived their mate- 

 rials. His figures of the Greenland Whale are the best published prior to 1874, and those of 

 the Narwhal are also excellent. Those of the other species were copied from previous 

 writers, and his brief notices of the other Cetaceans he describes were mostly given at 

 second hand, and indicate that he knew little about them from personal observation. His 

 four species of Balcenoptera are all to be referred to Physalus antiquomm, anct.(=Ba- 

 Icenoptera rmisculus). His nomenclature is that of Lacepede. Failing to recognize the 

 Nordkaper (Balcena biscayenais of recent. European cetologists) as a distinct species, he has 

 confounded its history, in his historical summary of the Northern Whale-fishery, with that 

 of Balcena mysticetus. Not meeting with the former, for now obvious reasons, in any of his 

 Whaling expeditions, he was very naturally led to disbelieve in its existence as a species 

 distinct from the Greenland Whale. [595.] 



1821. BLUMENBACH, J. F. Handbuch | der | Naturgeschichte | von | Joh. Fried. 



Blumenbacli. | | Multa fiunt eadem sed aliter. | Quintilian. | | Zehute 

 Ausgabe. | | Gottingen, | in der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung. | 1821. sm. 

 8. pp. i-xiv, 1-814, pll. i, ii. 



VIII. Palmata, pp. 131-136. Trichechus Manatus, p. 136. 



Cetacea, pp. 137-140. 1. Monodon Nanokal, p. 137; 2. Balcena Mysticetus, p. 137; 3. B. 

 Re-strata, p. 138; 4. Physeter Macrocephalus, p. 139; 5. Dclphinus Phocaena, p. 139; 6. D. 

 Delphis, p. 140; 7. D. Orca, p. 140. 



If. Rostrata replaces B. Physalus of the early editions, and the text is greatly changed. [596.] 



1821. BOWDICH, T. E. An Analysis | of the | Natural Classifications | of | Mamma- 

 lia, | for the use of | Students and travellers. | By T. Edward Bowdich, Esq. | 

 Conductor of the Mission to Ashantee, Member of the Wettervian Society of 

 Natural History. | | Paris, | Printed by J. Smith. | j 1821. 8. pp. i-iv. 

 5-115, pi. i-xv (osteology). 



"The first part [pp. 5-89] of the text is a translation of almost all but the specific descrip- 

 tions of the Mammiferes of Cuvier's Regne Animal, . . . interwoven with additions from his 

 Comparative Anatomy, Fossil Remains, the works of Frederic Cuvier, Dumeril, etc. . . . 

 The second part contains a general outline of the system of Illiger. . . ." (p. iv). 



Order VIII. Cetacea, pp. 84-89, 105, pi. xii, skulls of Balcena boops and Physeter macroce- 

 phalus ; pi. xiii, fig. 3, skull of Dugong ; pi. xiv, fig. 6, skull of American Manatee, fig. 7, do. of 

 African Manatee. [597.] 



1821. DELAVOIPIERE, . Faits | relatifs | a la | Peche de la Baleine, | Par Mr. De- 

 lavoipiere, Capitaine francais du Navire-Baleinier La Ce're's, du Havre. | | 

 Au Havre, | Chez Stanislas Faure, Impriineur du Roi. | | 1821. 8. pp. 

 1-30. 



Difference qui existe entre les Baleines, et le moycn de les reconnnitre, p. 3. De la Baleino 

 proprement dite, pp. 3, 4. De la Baleine a bosse, p. 4. De la Baleine a aileron, p. 5. Du Cacha- 

 lot, p. 6. Parages et saison ou se trouvent plus communement les poissons dont on extrait 

 1'huile, pp. 6-8. Armement des piroques, pp. 8-10. De la poursuite, p. 11. De I'attaque, pp. 



