560 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



1840. ESCHRICIIT, [D. F.]. [Over Delphinernes og Saelhundes Karsysteiner. ] 



handlingar vid det of Skandinaviska Naturforskare ocli Lakare liallna Mote i 

 Gothberg ar 1839 (1840), pp. 135J 136. [987.] 



1840. GOSSE, P. H. The | Canadian Naturalist. | A Series of conversations | on the | 

 Natural History of Lower Canada. | By | P[hilip]. H[enry]. Gosse. | Cor. 

 Mem. of the Nat. Hist. Soc. of Montreal, and of the j Lit. and Hist. Soc. of 

 Quebec. | [Vignette.] u Every kingdom, every province, should have its 

 own monographer." | Gilbert White. | Illustrated by forty-four Engravings. | 

 London: John Van Voorst, 1, Paternoster Row. | M. DCCC. XL. 8. pp. i- 

 xii, 1-372. 



Observations on tho habits of Delphinus canadensis (= Beluga catodon) and D. delphis at 

 pp. 171-174. [988.] 



1840. GRATELOUP, [J. P. S. DE]. Description | d'un fragment de machoire fossile, | 

 D'un genre nouveau de reptile (Saurien), de taille gigantesque, | voisin de 

 Tlguanodon, trouvd dans le Gres marins, a Le"ognan, | pres Bordeaux (Gi- 

 ronde); | Par le docteur Grateloup. 8. pp. 1-8, 1 pi. [Bordeaux, le 1 inai 

 1840. Imprimerie d'H. Gazay, rue Gouvion 15.] 



Squalodon, gen. n., p. 8. This is the original place of description of the genus Squalodon, 

 here regarded as Saurian, but later identified as Cetacean, and the basis of the Squalodon 

 grateloupi, auct. [989.] 



1840. GRATELOUP, [J. P. S. DE]. Consid6rations g6n<$rales sur la G6ologie et la 

 Zoologie fossile de la commune de L6ognan, pres Bordeaux. Discours pro- 

 nonce' a, Poccasion de la fete Iinn6enne ce'le'brde le 25 juin 1840. <^Act. Soc. 

 linn, de Bordeaux, xi, 1840, pp. 335-346. 



Squalodon, gen. n., p. 346. Also refers to the occurrence of remains "des Dauphins et au- 

 tres Cetaces." [990.] 



1840. HARLAN, [RICHARD]. [On the Discovery of the Basilosaurus and the Batra- 

 chiosaurus.] <Proc. Geol. Soc.Lond., i, 1840, pp. 23, 24. 



Abstract. [991.] 



1840. HERAUSGEBER. E. Eichwald: die Urwelt Russlands durch Abbildungen er- 



liiutert, Heft I, 73 SS, 8 mit 4 lithogr. Tafeln, auf Kosten der uiineralog. 



Gesellsch. in Petersb. 1840. <^Neues Jahrb. fiir Mineral., Geogn., Geol. und 



Petrefakt., 1840, pp. 731,732. 



Notiz. [992.] 



1840. HERAUSGEBER. G. D. Bruno: Belenchtung eines neuen fossilen Cetaceum. 

 (Mem. d. Accad. di Turino, Class. Mat. Fis. B, 1 [20 Seiten] tab. 1, 2.) 

 <Neucs Jalirb.fur Mineral, 1840, pp. 49(5-501. 



Auszug. * [993.] 



1840. HERAUSGEBER. Harlaii: iiber einige fossile Wirbelthiere Nord Amerika, 

 (Bullet. g6ol., 1839, x, 89, 90). <Neues Jahrb. fur Mineral., 1840, pp. 741, 742. 



Enthalt Bemerkungen iiber Basilosaurus, p. 741. [994.] 



1840. JOHNSON, [H.]. Ueber den flaschennasigen Walfisch (Hyperoodon). <^Froriep's 

 Nem Notizen aus dcm Gebicte der Natur-und Heilkunde, xv, No. 4, Juli 1840, 

 p. 58. 



External measurement, etc., of a specimen taken near Liverpool. [995 ] 



1840. JOHNSON, HENRY. Bottle-nosed Whale. <^Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., v, Julys 

 1840, pp. 301, 38^. Communicated, with a note, by Win. Thompson. 



Description of a specimen of Hyperoodon butzkopf taken near Liverpool, Feb., 1840. [996.] 

 1840. KAUP, J. J. Notizen. tiber die fossilen sogenannten Gras- fressenden Wale. 

 <.Neuca Jahrb. fur Mineral., etc., 1840, pp. 673-676. 



Gegen Christol (Ann. des Sci. nat., 1834, ii, 257) uber den Cuvierschcn Hippopotamus 

 medius und H. dubius. Synonymie von Halithcrium Cuvieri Kaup und Halicorc Cuvieri 

 Christol, p. 675. 



Pontotherium, gen. n. = Cheirotherium Christol, ein schon vergebenen Name. Manatusfos- 

 filis C uvier = Pug meodon Schinzii Kaup. [997. ] 





