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1840. BENNETT, F. DKBELL Continued. 



Bentley, New Burlington Street, j Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. | | 

 1840. 2 vols. 8. Vol. i. pp. i-xv, 1-402 ; vol. ii, pp. i-vii, 1-395. Map, wood- 

 cuts, and a fronticepiece plate to each volume. 



Vol. i contains a Zoological Appendix, nearly 100 pp. of which are devoted to Cetaceans, 

 to wit: 



Chap. I. General Remarks on Whales, pp. 145-152. Chap. TI. Whales of the Southern 

 Oceans (general ami anatomical description of the Cachalot, or Sperm Whale [" Catodon ma- 

 crocephalm, Lacep."]. its diseases, deformities, and parasites), pp. 153-170, fig. Chap. III. Nat- 

 ural history and habits of the Cachalot; Geographical distribution of the species; Natural 

 indications of its places of resort, pp. 171-183. Chap. IV. Historical notice of Sperm Whaje 

 Fishery; commercial details; equipment of vessels, etc., pp. 184-201. Chap. V. Pursuit and 

 capture of the Sperm Whale, pp. 202-212. Chap. VI. Dangers of the Sperm Whale Fishery, 

 pp. 213-222. Chap. VII. Commercial products of the Sperm Whale Fishery, pp. 223-228. 

 Chap. VIII. Southern Whales (concluded), pp. 229-241. Batcena Australis, Desm., pp. 229- 

 231. Balcenoptera sp. (Humpback of southern whalers), pp. 231, 232. Phoccena sp. (Black 

 Fish of South Sea whalers), pp. 233-235, fig. Delphinus Peronii Lacep., pp. 235-237, fig. Del- 

 phinus delphis, pp. 237, 238. The Grampus, p. 238. Fin-backs, Cow-fish, and Killers, pp. 

 239-240. 



There are also in vol. i various references to Sperm Whales 'and other Cetaceans, relating 

 mainly to their capture. [978.] 



1840. CHRISTOL, J. DE. Recherches sur divers ossemens fossiles attribue's par Cuvier 

 a deux especes d'Hippopotames et rapport6s au Mdtaxytherium, nouveau 

 genre de Ce'tace's de la famille des Dugongs. <^Hev. zool., 1840, p. 283. 



R6sum6 par d'auteur d'un memo ire de ce titre. [979.] 



1840. CHRISTOL, J. DE. Recherches sur divers ossements fossiles attribue's par Cuvier 



a deux Phoques, au Lamantin, et a deux especes d'Hippopotames, et rap- 



porte's au Metaxytherium, noveau genre de Ce'taee' de la famille des Dugongs. 



<L'Institut, 8 e aim., no. 552, '24 sept. 1840, pp. 322, 323. 



R6sum6. [980.] 



1840. CONRAD, T. A. On the Geognostic position of the Zeuglodon, or Basilosaurus 

 of Harlan. <Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, xxxviii, 1840, pp. 381, 382. [981.] 



1840. [DANA, RICHARD H., Jr.] Two Years | Before the Mast. | A | personal narra- 

 tive of | Life at Sea. | | . . . [= poetry, lines.] | | New York: | Har- 

 per & Brothers 82 Cliff Street. | | 1840. 12. pp. 1-482. 



Breathing of "shoals of sluggish whales and grampuses," near Falkland Islands, de- 

 scribed, p. 36. Whales off San Pedro, Lower California, pp. 169, 170. 



There are numerous later editions. In that of 1876, the passages above cited occur at pp. 

 30 and 156, 157. [982.] 



1840. DENNY, HENRY. Sketch of the Natural History of Leeds and its vicinity for 

 Twenty Miles. <Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., v, July, 1840, pp. 382-390. 



Occurrence of Delphinus Phoccena and Delphinus Orca, recorded, p. 386. [983.] 



1840. EDITORS. '[Notice of an extinct Dolphin, Delphinus karsteni, Von Olbers.] 

 <J/w. and Mag. Nat. Hist., v, May, 1840, p. 151. 



Based on a skull from near Biinde, Westphalia. [984.] 



1840. EICHWALD, ED. Notice sur Popuscule qui a pour titre : Le Monde primitif de 

 la Russie. <Bull. de la Soc. imp. des Nat. de Moscou, 1840, pp. 473-487. 



Delphinus priscus, pp. 474, 481-483. [985.] 



1840. EICHWALD, EDUARD. Die | Urwelt Russlands, | durch Abbildungen erlseu- 

 tert I von \ Eduard Eichwald, | der Phil., Med. und Chir. D r , Akademiker 

 und gelehrten Secretarieu | der St. Petersburgischen Med. Chir. Akademie 

 u. s. w. | Erstes Heft. | | Aus den Schriften der kaiserlichen St. Petersbur- 

 gischen mineralogischen Gesellschaft besonders abgedruckt. | | Mit 4 

 lithographischen Tafeln. | | Aus dem russichen uebersetzt. | [ St. 

 Petersburg. | Gedruckt in der Druckerei des Journal de Saint-P6tersbourg. 

 | | 1840. 4. 11. 2, pp. 1-106, pll. i-iv. 



II. Beschreibung einiger Knochen des Ziphius prisons, pp. 25-53, pll. i, ii (Wirbelbeine, 



zwei Bruchstucke des Unterkiefers, ein Bruchstiick der ersteu Kippe, und Fingerknochen). 



Ziphius prisons, sp. n. [986.] 



