516 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SUEVEY. 



1823. SCORESBY, William, J?-. —Continued. 



"Whalefishery and "Whales, passim^ in text, to ■wit: A "Wliale captured, p. 41; Narwhals, 

 pp. 75, 76; capture of "Whales, pp. 123-130, 134-136; Narwhal taken, — description of the ani- 

 mal, including measurements, p. 132 ; further account of the Narwhal, including its anatomy, 

 pp. 136-142, figg. at pp. 140, 141, illustrative of structure of blow-hole; anatomy of the "Whale, 

 pp. 148-158, figg. showing structure of blow-holes at pp. 152, 153 ; "Whales taken, pp. 285-290. 



[630.] 



1824. Anon. Udtog af en Dagbog, holdet paa en Rejse i Gronland i Sommeren 1823. 



<^Orsted, Tidsskrift for Naturuidenslcaberne, 1824, no. 9, pp. 271-289, no. 10, pp. 

 1-35. 



References passim to various Cetaceans, e. g., no. 10, pp. 2, 4, 20, 26, 29, etc. [631.] 



1824. Anon. A Yoyage to Cochin China. By Jolin White, Lieutenant in the United 

 States Navy. <^Edml}. Bev., xli, 1825, pp. 123-142. 



An extended review of the work {see 1824. "White, J.), containing, at pp. 136-142, some 

 account of the Southern "Whale Fishery. [632.] 



1824. Chamisso, Adelbertus de. Cetaceorum maris Kamtschatici imagines, ab 

 Aleutis e ligno fictas, adumbravit recensuitque Adelbertus de Chamisso, Dr. 

 <]iVbi'. Act. Plujs.- med. Acad. Cms. Leop.- Carol. .2fat. Curios., xii, 1, 1824, pp. 

 249-260, pll. xvi-xx; xii, 2, p. 873 (corrigenda). 



3 . Balaena Kuliomoch, pp. 249-256, pi. xvi, fig. 1 (i. c, pi. xvii, fig. 3). 3. Balaena Abugu- 

 lich, pp. 256, 257, pi. xvi, fig. 2 (i. e., pi. xvii, fig. 1). 3. Balaena Mangidach, p. 257, pi. xvii, fig. 3 

 (i. e., pi. xvi, fig. 1). 4. Balaena Agamachtschich, pp. 257, 258, pi. xviii, fig. 4. 3. Balaena Alio- 

 moch \el ^iKama, p. 256, pi. xviii, fig. 5. 6. Balaena Tschickaglulc, p. 257, pi. xix, fig. 6. 7. 

 Physeter Agidagich vel Agdagjach, pp.257, "260" (i. e., 258), pi. xix, fig. 7. 8. Ancylodon? 

 Alugninich, pp. "261, 262," pi. xs, fig. 8. 9. Delpinus [sic] Aguluch, p. 260, pi. xx, fig. 9. 



A more barbarous piece of work was doubtless never perpetrated in natural history than 

 the burdening of Cetology by Chamisso with nine "species" of Cetaceans based on wooden 

 images made by the Aleuts. In the light of present knowledge of the Cetacea of the Japan 

 seas most of them may be determined generically, mainly, however, on the basis of excla- 

 sion. The delineations and descriptions are of interest as showing the proficiency of sav- 

 ages in carving natural objects in wood, but as diagnoses of actual species they are not enti- 

 tled to recognition, and the barbarous names by which they are specifically designated may 

 ■well drop from the system as indeterminable synonjms. A page of errata in the second part 

 of the volume shows that the references in the text to the first three figures are erroneous, 

 while, to further complicate the citation of the paper, pp. 256 and 257 and p. 200 are duplicated, 

 while there are no pp. 258 and 259. 



Balaena Kuliomoch (fig. iii, not fig. i, as given in the text) relates quite evidently to 

 some species of Balcena. Balcena Ahugulich (fig. i, not fig. ii, as given in the text), Balcena 

 Mangidach (fig. ii, not fig. iii, as given in the text), and Balcena Agamachtschich (fig. iv), all 

 apparently relate to l<"'in-"Whales. The size of the pectoral fin in Balcena Aliomoch (fig. v) 

 seems to indicate that it is a species of Megaptera. Balcena Tsehikagluck (fig. vi) is unrecog- 

 nizable even generically ; it may, however, relate to Bhachianectes. Physeter Agidagich (fig. 

 vii) has a general resemblance only to Physeter. The Ancylodon? Alugninich (fig. viii) is un- 

 recognizable. Delp[h]inus Aguluch (fig. ix) is apparently some species of Orca. [633.] 



1824. CuviER, G. Sur la determination des diverses espfeces de Baleines vivantes. 

 <CiAnn. des Sci. nat., ii, 1824, pp. 27-41. 



Extrait de Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles, v, pp. 360-370. [634.] 



1824. Desm[are]st, [A. G.] Revue efc representation d'images sculptcSes en bois par 

 les habitans des lies A16outes, repr(Ssentant diverses espfeces de C<Stac6s des 

 mers du Kamtschatka; par A. de Chamisso; av. 5 pi. litogr. (Nov. Ada Acad. 

 Cws. Leop. Carol. Nat. Cur., to. xii, l^e partie). <^Ferussac^s Bull, des Sci. nat., 

 iii, 1824, pp. 70-75. 



K6sum6. [635.] 



1824. Desmoulins, A. Dauphin. <Z»ic^. cZass. d'^is^. «af., r, Cra-D, 1824, pp. 348-3(51. 

 Dauphin, Delphinus: generalities, pp. 348-353; species, pp. 353-361. 1. Belphinus Delphis, 

 L., p. 363; 3. D. Tursio, Fabr., p. 354; 3. J), frontatus, Cuv., p. 354; 4. 2>. Bredancnsis, 

 Cuv., p. 355; 5. D. coronatus, Fr6m., p. 355; 6. D. gangelicus, Lebeck, p. 355; 7. D. dubiws, 

 Cuv., p. 356; 8. jD. Boryi, Desm., p. 356, pi. cxli, fig. 1 (original); 9. D. Phoccena, L., p. 557 

 (i. e., 357) ; lO. B. Orca, Fabr., p. 557 (i. e., 357) ; 11. X>. griseus, Cuv., p. 557 (i. e., 357) ; J3. 

 D. globiceps, Cuv., p. 358; 13. -D. Leucas, Pall., p. 358; 14. D. Peronii, Lac6p. ( = B.lcuco- 

 rhamphus, P6ron), p. 359; 15. Dauphin Ehinoceros, Quoy et Gaim., p. 359; 10. Daupliia 



