484 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



1795. Walcott, S. — Continued. 



contents.] | Forming an [ Universal. Display of Nature, | Animate and Inani- 

 mate. I . . . [=3 lines]. | — [By Sylvanus Walcott, Esq., F. E. S. | Assisted 

 by many gentlemen of eminence. | — | Elegantly embellished witli a su^Jerb 

 group of folio prints : | Representing several Thousand different Objects . . . 

 [=2 lines]. | — | London: | Printed for Ales. Hogg, No. 16, in Paternoster- 

 Row, and sold by all the Booksellers of | Bath, Bristol, , . . [=8 lines, names 

 of other towns in alphabetical order]. No date, fol, pp. 1-542, pU. i-clix [?] 



The plate8 are not nearly all numbered ; the nnmber of the last one is clix. There i.s no 

 date on the title-page, hut at the bottom of the frontispiece page is engraved in smallletters: 

 Published March 21, 1795, by Alex. Hogg, No. 16 Paternoster Eo-w. 



Book m. A New and Complete History and Description of Fishes in general, pp. 200- 

 253, pll. Iviii, Ixi, Ixii, +3 pll. unnumbered. Chap. I. Natural History of Fishes of the Ceta- 

 ceous kind, viz. : The "WTiale and its varieties, the Cachalots, the Dolphin, the Grampus, and 

 the Porpus, pp. 202-206. 1. Greenland "Whale, pp. 202-204, pi. Ixii, fig. 66. 3. Pike-headed 

 "Whale, p. 204. 3. Eound-lipped "Whale, p. 204. 4. Cachalot, or Spermaceti "Whale, pp. 204, 

 205. 5. Great-headed Cachalot. 6. Hound-headed Cachalot, p. 205. t. Dolphin, 8. Gram- 

 pus, and 9. Porpus, pp. 205, 206. There is a figure of the Narwhal, but apparently no descrip- 

 tion. The work is of most interest as a literary curiosity, being a popular compilation, of no 

 scientific value. [441.] 



1796. Aberxethy, J. Some particulars in the Anatomy of a Whale. <^PMlos. Trans. 



Lond., [Ixxxvi], pt. 1, art. ii, 1796, pp. 27-33. 



On the structure and function of the lymphatic glands. [442.] 



1796. "PossELT, K. F. Ueber den Gronlandischen WalLfischfang, herausgegeben von 

 A. Niemann. Kiel, 1798. S'^." 



Not seen; from Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 246, no. 3546. [4.43.] 



1796. Stei>man, J. G. Narrative, | of a five years' expedition against the [ Revolted 



Negroes of Surinam, | in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of | South America; | from 

 the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the History of that Country, and | describ- 

 ing its Productions, Viz. | Quadi;upeds, Fishes, Reptiles, Trees, Shrubs, Fruits, 

 & Roots ; I with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. | 

 By Capt". J[ohn]. G[abriel]. Stedman. | Illustrated with 80 elegant Engrav- 

 ings, from the drawings made by the Author. | — | Vol. I.[-II]. | — | [Vi- 

 gnette.] .... [^quotation, 7 lines]. London. Printed for J. Johnson, S'. 

 Paul's Church Yard, & J. Edwards, Pall Mall. 1796. 2 vols. 4°. Engr. 

 title-page, maps and plates. 



Manatee, vol. ii, p. 175, tig. pi. facing p. 176 (general description). [444.] 



1796-1810. Blumenbach, J. F. Abbildungen | naturhistorischer Gegenstiinde | her- 

 ausgegeben I vou I Joh. Fried. Blumenbach. | — | N''° 1-100. | — | Gottiugen | 

 bey Heinrich Dieterich. | 1810 | [1796-1810]. 8°. 



Cetaceen. No. 44, Monodon narhwal, text, 2 pp. "Die Abbildung stellt denjenigen Nar- 

 hwal vor, der 1736 in der Miindung der Elbe gestrandet war, und ist aus einem periodischen 

 Blatte jener Zeit, den Hambnrgischen Berichten von gelehrten Sachen, genommen." 



No. 74. Balcsna loops on plate, B. rostrata in text. Original figure of a specimen 52 feet 

 long stranded on the coast of Holland, between Sandfort and Wyk op Zee, in Dec, 1791. Also 

 figure of the head of another example, copied from Sibbald's "Phalainologia." 



No. 84. Physetcr macrocephalus. ' ' Hier diese Abbildung ist von dem meisterhaften grossen 

 aber seltnen Blatte genommen, woiauf der vortrcffliche Kiinstler J. Saenredam den 00 Puss 

 langen Pottflsch der im Dec. 1001 am Ufcr von Beverwyk gestrandet war, nach dem Lcben 

 vorgestellt hat." 



No. 94. Balcena m.ysticetus, "aus Hesel Gerard's dcscriptio gcographicatransitus supra 

 terras Ainericanas in Chinam." 



No. 95. Delphinus delpkis. "Die Abbildung ist von einer trefflichen Zeichnung unscrs 

 nnvergesslichen G. Porsters genommen." 



Eigner Tafel ist mit zwei Seiten von Texte vorsehen; [445.] 



1797. Abernethy, Joh. Einige Eigenheiten in der Zergliederung des Wallfisches. 



-^Beil's Arch, fiir Phi/siol, ii, 1797, pp. 232-239. 



Uebersetzung aus der Phil. Trans, roy. Soc. London for 1796, pt. 1, pp. 27 et seqq. [446.] 



