482 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SUEVEY. 



1793. " DoxNDORFF, JOH. AuG. Haudbucli cler ThiergescMcMe. Nach den Tbesten 

 Quellen u. neusten Beobachtungen zum gemeinniitz. Gebrauche. gr. 8°. 

 Leipzig, 1793." 



Kotseen; title from Carus and Engelmann. [428.] 



1793. [London Society, etc.'\ [Premium for] Gun for throTving Harpoons, [and for] 

 Taking Whales by the Gun-Harpoon. <^ Trans. London Soc. Eneour. Arts, 

 Man., and Com., xi, 1793, pp. 335, 336. 



These offers of premiums were annually renewed \>y the society for many years. See sub- 

 sequent volumes of the society's Trans. [429.] 



1793. " Pasteur, J. D. Beknopte natuurlijke bistorie der zoogende dieren. Leyden, 

 Honkoop en IMortier, 1793. 3 din. met pi. 8°." 

 "Ziealdaar: iii, hi. 305-393: Zoogende waterdieren. " 

 Not seen; title and comment from Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 170, no. 2689. [430.] 



1793. St. John [deC RiiVECCEUR], J. Hector. Letters | from an | American Farmer, ( 

 describing | certain provincial situations, | manners, and customs, | and con- 

 veying I some idea of tbe state [ of tbe people of | North America. | — | Writ- 

 ten to a friend in England, | By J. Hector St. John, [de Crevecceur]. | A 

 Farmer in Pennsylvania. | — | Philadelphia : | From the Press of Matthew 

 Carey. ] JVIarch 4,— M. DCC. XCIII. 12°. pp. i-viii, 9-240. 



Substantially the same as the ed. prin., 1782, with, however, the omission of the maps and 

 the references to them. The "letters" relating to the Nantucket Whalefishery, etc., are at 

 pp. 118-136. For the character of the matter see ed. of 1782. [431.] 



1793. Sinclair, John. The | Statistical Account | of | Scotland. | Drawn up from 



the Communications | of the | Ministers | of the | Different Parishes. | — | 

 By Sir John Sinclair, Bart. | — | Volume Fifth. | "Ad consilium de republica 

 dandum, caput est nosse rempublicam." | Cicero de Orat. lib. ii. | — | Edin- 

 burgh: I printed and sold by William Creech; | . . . . [^ 5 lines, names of 

 other booksellers]. | — j M,DCC,XCIII. 8°. pp. i-vii, 1-591. 



A "list of the different kinds of Pish, which are found in the river and frith of Clyde," 

 pp. 535-538. A nominal list, including the following species of Cetaceans (p. 533) : Blunt- 

 headed Whale, Physeter microps ; Grampus, orBucker, Delphinus orca; Porpoise, or Pellock, 

 2). phocoena. [432.] 



1793-96. " Ebert, Joh. Jac. Naturlehre (u. Naturgesch.) fiir die Jugend. 3 Bde., 

 3Auli. 8°. Leipzig, 1793-96. (1,2 Aufl., 1776-87.)" 

 Not seen; title from Carus and Engelmann. Cited by Donndorff and others. [433.] 



1794. Anon. Progress of the Whale Fishery at Nantucket. <^Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 



for the year 1794, iii, 1794, p. 161. 



A brief chronological history, 1690 to 1785. [434.] 



1794. Macy, Z. a short Journal of the first settlement of the island of Nantucket, 

 with some of the most remarkable things that have happened since, to the 

 present time. By Zaccheus Macy. <^Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. for the year 1794, 

 iii, 1794, pp. 155-156 (?. e.,160). 



Of the Whale Fishery, pp. 157, 158. A brief but important original account of the origin 

 of the Nantucket "Whale-fishery. [435 J 



1794. Pallas, S. P., et J. B. LajiarcK; Voyages | du | Professeur Pallas, | dnns 

 plusieurs Provinces | de I'Empire de Eussie | et | dans I'Asie septentrionale; | 

 Traduitsdel'allemandparleC.Gauthier | de la Peyronie. | Nouvelle 6dition, | 

 Eevue et enrichie de Notes par les CC. Lamarck, profes- | seur de Zoologie au 

 Museum national d'Histoire naturelle; | et Laugl^s, Sous-Garde des Manu- 

 scrits de la Biblio- ( theque natiouale, pour les Langues Arabe, Persane, 

 Tatare- | Mantchou, &c. | Tome Premier [-huitieme]. | — | A Paris, | Chez 

 Maradau, Libraire, rue du Cimetiere | Andr6-des-Arcs, n°. 9. | — | L'An II de 

 la R^publique [=1794]. 8 vols. 8°. 



The title of vol. viii varies from the above by substitiition of the following between "Nou- 

 velle Edition" and the number of the volume: 



Ap]5endix, | Con tenant les descriptions des Animaus et des V»5g(Staux obser- 

 ves I dans les Voyages du Professeur Pallas, et cit6s ou mentionnds | dans les 



