516 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



1823. SCORESBY, WILLIAM, .;>. Continued. 



Whalefishery and Whales, passim, in text, to wit: A "Whale captured, p. 41; Narwhals, 

 pp. 75, 76 ; capture of Whales, pp. 123-130, 134-136 ; Narwhal taken, description of the ani- 

 mal, including measurements, p. 132 ; further account of the Narwhal, including its anatomy, 

 pp. 136-142, figg. at pp. 14o, 141, illustrative of structure of blow -hole ; anatomy of the Whale, 

 pp. 148-158, figg. showing structure of blow-holes at pp. 152, 153 ; Whales taken, pp. 285-290. 



[630.] 



1824. ANON. Udtog af en Dagbog, lioldet paa en Rejse i Gronland i Sommeren 1823. 



<^Orsted, Tidsskrift for NaturvidensJcaberne, 1824, no. 9, pp. 271-289, no. 10, pp. 

 l-:>5. 



References passim to various Cetaceans, e. g., no. 10, pp. 2, 4, 20, 26, 29, etc. [631.] 



1824. ANON. A Voyage to Cochin China. By John White, Lieutenant in the United 

 States Navy. <Edinb. Eei\, xii, 1825, pp. 123-142. 



An extended review of the work (see 1824. WHITE, J.), containing, at pp. 136-142, some 

 account of the Southern Whale Fishery. [632.J 



1824. CHAMISSO, ADELBERTUS DE. Cetaceorum maris Kamtschatici imagines, ab 

 Aleutis e ligno fictas, adumbravit recensuitque Adelbertus de Charuisso, Dr. 

 <^Nou. Act. Phys.-med. Acad. Cces. Leop.- Carol. Nat. Curios., xii, 1, 1824, pp. 

 249-280, pll. xvi-xx; xii, 2, p. 873 (corrigenda). 



1. Balaena Kuliomoch, pp. 249-256, pi. xvi, fig. 1 (i. e., pi. xvii, fig. 3). 2. Balaena Abugu- 

 lich, pp. 256, 257, pi. xvi, fig. 2 (i. e., pi. xvii, fig. 1). 3. Balaena Mangidach, p. 257, pi. xvii, fig. 3 

 (i. e., pi. xvi, fig. 1). 4. Balaena Agamachtschich, pp. 257, 258, pi. xviii, fig. 4. 5. Balaena Alio- 

 moch vel Aliama, p. 256, pi. xviii, fig. 5. 6. Balaena Tschickagluk, p. 257, pi. xix, fig. 6. 7. 

 Physetcr Agidagich vel Agdagjach, pp.257, "260" (i. e , 258), pi. xix, fig. 7. 8. Ancylodon? 

 Alugninich, pp. "261, 262," pi. xx, fig. 8. 9. Delpinus [sic] Aguluch, p. 260, pi. xx, fig. 9. 



A more barbarous piece of work was doubtless never perpetrated in natural history than 

 the burdening of Cetology by Chamisso with nine "species" of Cetaceans based on wooden 

 images made by the Aleuts. In the light of present knowledge of the Cetacea of the Japan 

 seas most of them may be determined generically, mainly, however, on the basis of exclu- 

 sion. The delineations and descriptions are of interest as showing the proficiency of sav- 

 ages in carving natural objects in wood, but as diagnoses of actual species they are not enti- 

 tled to recognition, and the barbarous names by which they are specifically designated may 

 well drop from the system as indeterminable synonyms. A page of errata in the second part 

 of the volume shows that the references in the text to the first three figures are erroneous, 

 while, to further complicate the citation of the paper, pp. 256 and 257 and p. 260 are duplicated, 

 while there are no pp. 258 and 259. 



Balaena Kuliomoch (fig. iii, not fig. i, as given in the text) relates quite evidently to 

 some species of Balcena. Balcena Abugulich (fig. i, not fig. ii, as given in the text), Balcena 

 Mangidach (fig. ii, not fig. iii, as given in the text), and Balcena Agamachtschich (fig. iv), all 

 apparently relate to Fin- Whales. The size of the pectoral fin in Balcena Aliomoch (fig. v) 

 seems to indicate that it is a species of Megaptera. Balcena Tschikagluck (fig. vi) is unrecog- 

 nizable even generically ; it may, however, relate to Rhachianectes. Physeter Agidagich (fig. 

 vii) has a general resemblance only to Physeter. The Ancylodon ? Alugninich (fig. viii) is un- 

 recognizable. Delp[h]inu8 Aguluch (fig. ix) is apparently some species of Orca. [633.] 



1824. CUVIER, G, Sur la d6termination des di verses especes de Baleines vivantes. 

 <Ann. des Sci. nat., ii, 1824, pp. 27-41. 



Extrait de Hecherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles, v, pp. 360-370. [634.] 



1824. DESM[ARE]ST, [A. G.] Revue et representation d'images sculpte'es en bois par 

 les habitans des lies Aleoutes, repre"sentant diverses especes de Ce'tace's des 

 mers du Kamtschatka ; par A. de Chamisso; av. 5 pi. litogr. (Nov. Ada Acad. 

 Cces. Leop. Carol. Nat. Cur., to. xii, l re partie). <^Ferussac J s Bull, des Sci. nat., 

 iii, 1824, pp. 70-75. 



Resum6. [635.] 



1824. DESMOULINS, A. Dauphin. <DiW. class. tfHist. nat., v, Cra-D, 1824, pp. 348-301. 

 Dauphin, Delphinus: generalities, pp. 348-353 ; species, pp. 353-361. 1. Delphinus Delphis, 

 L., p. 363; 2. D. Tursio, Fabr., p. 354; 3. D. frontatus, Guv., p. 354; 4. D. Bredanehs'.s, 

 Guv., p. 355; 5. D. coronatus, Fr6m., p. 355; 6. D. gangeticus, Lebeck, p. 355; 7. D. dubius, 

 Cuv., p. 356; 8. D. Boryi, Desm., p. 356, pi. cxli, fig. 1 (original); 9. D. Phoccena, L., p. 557 

 (i. e., 357); 1O. D. Orca, Fabr., p. 557 (i. e., 357); 11. D. griseus, Cuv., p. 557 (L e., 357); J2. 

 D. globiceps, Cuv., p. 358; 13. D. Leucas, Pall., p. 358; 14. D. Peronii, Lacep. ( = D. leuco- 

 rhamphus, Peron), p. 359; 15. Dauphin Rhinoc6ros, Quoy et Gaim., p. 359; 16. Dauphin 



