442 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SUEVEY. 



1738. Artedi, p. — Continued. 



aiiis I exoticis. | Iclithyologife Pars V. | [Vignette.] Lngduni Batavorum, | 

 Apud Conradum Wishoff, 1738. b°. 1. i, pp. 1-102 (i. e., 112), 11. 2. 



Ordo V. Plagiuri, Balaena, G. Pise. 48, pp. lOG-107. [209.] 



1738. Egede, Hans. Omstaendelig og ndf0rlig | Eelation, | Angaaende | den Gr0n- 

 landske Missions | Begyndelse og FortsjBttelse, | samt | hvad ellers mere der 

 ved Landets Eecognoscering, | dets Beskaffevlied, og Indbyggernes Vtesen 

 og I Leve-Maadevedkommende, er befunden; | Af | Hans Egede, | F(*rst Guds 

 Ords u-vserdig Lserere for Bogens Meniglieder | udi Nord-Landene derester 

 Kongelig Dansk | Missionair udi Gr0nland. | [Vignette.] [ Kjobenliaven. 

 1738. I Trykt bos Job. Cbrist. Grotb, boende paa Graabr0dre-Torv. 4°. 11. 10, 

 pp. 1-408. 



Contains passing references to "Wlialefishing Ly the Greenlanders. There is a German 

 translation, Hamburg, 1740, 4°. [210.] 



1738. Hampe, John Henry. A Description of tbe same Narhual, communicated by 

 John Henry Hampe, M. D. F. E. S. <^Phil. Trans., Lond., xl, no. 447, 1738, pp. 

 149-150. 



A further and rather more explicit account of the external characters of the specimen re- 

 ferred to below (see next title). [211.] 



1738. Steigertahl, Dr. Part of a Letter from Dr. Steigertahl, F. E. S.,to Sir Hans 

 Sloane, Bart. Pres. E. S., giving an Account of a Narhual or Unicorn i^is/i, lately 

 taken in tbe Eiver Ost, Dutcby of Bremen, dated at Hanover j^l^2a 1736. Trans- 

 lated from tbe French by T. S. M. D., &c. <C^P/i,iZos. Trans., Land., xl, no. 447, 

 1738, pp. 147-149, pi. i, fig. 1. 



Monodon monoceros ; account of capture and external appearance of a specimen taken 

 January, 1735, in the river Ost, Bremen. PI. i, fig. 1, animal, from "the Figure engrav'd and 

 printed at Hamburg."' [212.] 



1739-1804. Wagenaar, .J. , and others. ' ' Staat (TegeuTroordige) der Vereenigde Neder- 

 lauden (door J. Wageuaar e. a.). Ambterdam, Tirion, 17.39-1804. 23 din. 

 gr. 8°. Met platen en kaarten." 



"... "Walvischvangst, door de West-Indische maatschappij zonder voordeel ondernomen, i, 

 hi. 533. Beginsels der walvischvangst, bl. 588. "Wetten omtrent dezelve, bl. 592. Waar zij 

 geschiede, bl. 593. Onderzoek of er de reeders voordeel bij hebben, bl. 599. Kosten op de 

 uitrusting, enz., bl. 501, 506. "Walvischbaarden, bl. 597, 599, 608. Walvischspek, hoe dik, 

 bl. 598." 

 Not seen ; title and references from Bosgoed, op. cit, p. 210, no. 3170. [213.] 



1740. Frisch, Johann Leonhard. De Pboctena in Pomeranise lacu quodam inventa. 

 <^Miscel. Berolinensia, vi, 1740, p. 124, pi. vi. 



Phoccena communis. 1 page of test and fig. of animal. [214.] 



1740. Herrara, a. de. Tbe General | History | of the vast | Continent and Islands | 

 of I America, | Commonly call'd, Tbe | West-Indies, | from | Tbe First dis- 

 covery thereof: | With the best Accounts tbe People could give of their | 

 Antiquities. | Collected from tbe Original Eelations | sent to tbe Kings of 

 Spain. I — I By Antonio de Herrara, | Historiographer to His Catholick Ma- 

 jesty. I — I Translated into English by Capt. John Stevens. [ — | Vol. I[-VI]. 

 I — I Illustrated with Cuts and Maps. | — | Tbe Second Edition. | — | Lon- 

 don, I Printed for Wood and Woodward in Paternoster-Eow. | MDCCXL. 

 6 vols. 8°. 



The Manati, vol. i, p. 278. Tor additional comment, see edd. of 1728. [215.] 



1740. Klein, J. T. lacobi | Tbeodori Klein | Historise | Piscium | Naturalis | Promo- 

 vendai | Missus primus | de | Lapillis eorumqve Numero | in | Craniis Pisci- 

 um, I cum Praefatione: | de | Piscium auditu. | Accesserunt | I. Anatome Tur- 

 sionum | II. Observata in Capite Eaia3. | — | Virgil. V. JSneid. 239. | Dixit: 

 eumque imis sub fluctibus audiit omnis Nereidum Pborcique Chorus. | Cum 

 Figuris. | [Vignette.] | — | Gedani, Litteris Schreiberianis. 1740. 4°. 1. 1, 

 pp. 1-35. 



