480 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



1791. GuMiLLA, J. — Continued. 



Misionero que fu6 cle las Misiones del Orinoco, | Meta y Casanare. | Niieva Im- 

 presion: | Mucho mas correcta que las anteriores, y adornada con ocho | l^mi- 

 nas finas, que mauifiestan las costumbres y ritos de | aquellos Americanos. | 

 Corregido por el P. Ignacio Obreg6n, de los CliSrigos Menores: | Tomo I. | 

 Barcelona: | En la Imprenta de Carlos Gibert y Tut6 | Auo MDCCLXXXXI. 

 2 vols. sm. 4°. pp. i-xvi, 1-360, map and pU. 



"Variedad de peces y singulares industrias de loa Indios para pescar ; piedras y buesos medi- 

 cinales que se ban descubierto en algimos pescados. Tom. i, cap. xxi, pp. 277-292. — Manati, 

 pp. 281-289. (See antea, edd. of 174.5 and 1758.) [416.] 



1791. [HuLLOCK, Tyzack, Johx Wheatley, and otliers.l [Accounts and Certificates 

 of taking Whales with the Gun-Harpoon.] <^Trans. London Soc. Enconr. Arts, 

 Man., and Com., ix, 1791, pp. 158-166. [417.] 



1791. [London Society, etc.] [Award of Premium for improved Gun Harpoon.] 



<^Trans. London Soc. Encour. Arts, Man., and Com., ix, 1791, pp. 167, 168, pi. iv. 



Accountof " Mr. Charles Moore's improved Harpoon Gun, witli figures of the gun." [418.] 



1791. "Meares, J. Voyages | Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, | from China to the 

 N. W. coast of America: | with | an introductory narrative | of | a voyage | 

 Performed in 1783, from Bengal, | in the Ship Nootka. | To which are an- 

 nexed, I observations on the probable existence | of | a north west passage. | 

 And some account of | the trade between the north west coast of America | 

 and China; and the latter country and | Great Britain. | — | By John IVIeares, 

 Esq. I — I Vol. I [II]. I — I London: | printed at the Logographic Press; | and 

 sold by I J. Walter, No. 169, Piccadilly, opposite Old Bond Street. | 1791. 2 

 vols. sm. 8vo. pp. i-xii, i-lxxii, 1-363, maps, pll. Vol. II, 2 p. 11., pp. 1-332 -j- 32 

 unpaged 11. (Appendix), maps." 



Not seen; title from Coues, Birds Col. Tail., App., 1878, p. 589. Tor reference to the ceto- 

 logical matter, see the French version under 1795. 1419.] 



1791. Overbeek, L. " Vinvis, gestraud tusschen Wijk aan Zee en Zandvoort. 1791. 

 Door L. Overbeek. br. folio." 



From Bosgoed, op. eit, p. 176, no. 2781. . [420.] 



1791. RiEDACTEUR. M^moire [par C. Cuvier] sur I'organe de I'ouie dans les c^tac^s. 



p. 99. </?mZZ. de la Soc. philom., 1791, p. 99. 



Notice. [421.] 



1791 (circa). Schwedianer, — . ["Ueber den Ursprung des Ambers."] <^Samml. zur 

 Fhys. und Naturgescli., iii, (1791?), p. 336. Aus d. Phil. Trans., Ixxiii, pp. 226 

 et seqq. 



Not seen; title based on a reference in Donndorff, Zool. Beytr., i, 1792, p. 777. [422.] 



1792. BuFFOX, [G. L. Leclerc de]. Histoire | Naturelle | des | Quadrupedes. 



I — I Par M.. L. Compte de BufPon. | — | Tome septieme. | Avec Planches. 

 I — I [Design.] Berne, | chez La Nouvelle Soci6t6 Typographique. | — | 

 M.DCC.XCIL 8°. 11. 2, pp. 5-296. 



Les Phoques, les Morses et les Lamantins, pp. 136-203, pll. xv-xvii. Le Dugong, pp. 181- 

 185. Lo Lamantin, pp. 185-203, pi. xvii. 



The text is the same as that of the original edition (1765, q. v.), with the omission of Dau- 

 benton's anatomical observations. The additions made in the "Suppl6ment" (vol. vi, 1782) 

 are not included. [423.] 



1792. Donndorff, J. A. Zoologische | Beytriige | zur | XIII. Ausgabe | des Linn6- 

 ischen | Natursystems | von | Johann August Donudorif. | — | Erster Band. | 

 Die Siiugthiere. | — | Leipzig, | in der Weidmanuscheu Buchhandlung. | 

 1792. [Zweyter Band | Die Vogel. | Erster Thiel, 1794. Zweyter Theil, 1795.] 

 8f^ pp. i-xx, 1-840, 11. 30. 



Siebente [und letztc] Ordnung. Cete (Saugende Seethiere), pp. 755-790. 1. Monodon Mo- 

 noceros, p. 755 O. Spurius? Der Anamak? p. 760) ; !i. Balacna Mysticetus, p. 761 (|3. Islandica, 

 et 7. Maior, p. 765) ; 3. B. Fhysalus, p. 765; 4. B. Boops, p. 707; 5. B. Gibbosa, p. 769; 6. B. 

 Musculus, p. 770; y. B. Eogtrata, p. 772; 8. Physeter Gatodon, p. 773; 9. P. Macrocephalus, 



