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183S. Baer, K. E. ton. Untersuchungen iiber die ehemalige Verbreitung und die 

 gunzliche Vertilgung der von Steller beobacbteten nordischen Seekub (EijUna, 

 111.)- <^Bull. de VAcad. imp. des Sci. de St.- Peter sbourg, iii, 1838, pp, 355-359. 



Extrait en langue frangais du m^moire de cet titre, imprimS dans lea Mem. de la meme 

 acad. [929.] 



1838. Bennett, F. Debell. Ueber Physeter macrocephalus, besonders seiu Gebiss. 

 <^Ms von Okcn, 1838, pp. 217, 218. 



Auszug aus Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., iv, 1836, pp. 127-129. [930.] 



1838. Blainville, M. H. de. Sur les Cacbalots. <^Ann. frang. et etrang. d'Anat. ct 

 de Pliys., ii, 1838, pp. 335-337, pi. s. 



Physeter breviccps, sp. n. (p. 337), pi. x, crdne. [931.] 



1838. Breschet, G. Apergu descriptif de I'organe auditif du Marsouia {Delpliinus 

 phocwna L.). <C^Ann. des Sci. nai., 2^ ser., Zool., x, 1838, pp. 221-229, pi. v. 



1° Conduit anditif exteme. 2° Os tympanal. 3° Cavit6 du tympan. 4° Oreille interne ou 

 labyrinthe. [932.] 



1838. Bronn, Heinrich Georg. Letbaea Geognostica, | oder | Abbildungen nnd Be- 

 scbreibungen | der | fiir die Gebirgs-Formationen bezeicbneudsten | Verstei- 

 nerungen, | mit | lithograpbirten 47 Quart., 1 Folio-Tafel und 2 Tabellen, | 

 Ton I Heinricb Georg Bronn, | . . . [== titles, 7 lines.] | — | Zweite Auflage. | 

 ' Zweiter Band, | das Kreide- und Molassen-Gebirge enthaltend. | — | Stutt- 

 gart. I E. Schweizerbart's Verlagsbandlung. | 1838. 8°. 11. 2, pp. 545-1346, 

 11. 2. 



Cetacea, pp. 1175-1177, pll. xliii, fig. 6. Zipfiius planirostris, p. 1176, pi. xliii, fig. 6. [933.] 



1838. Gluge, [Theophile]. Sur la terminaison des nerfs. — 1" Sur leur terminaison 

 dans la peau de la baleine. <^BuU. de VAcad. roy. des Sci. et Bellts-lett. de 

 Bruxelles, v, 1838, pp. 20-25. [934.] 



1838. Humboldt, Alexander von, und A. F. A. Wiegmann. Ueber den Manati des 

 Orinoko. <^Wiegmann's Arch. fUr Naturgesch., 1838, Bd. i, 4. Jahrg., pp. 1-10, 

 pll. i, ii. 



Aus dessen franzosischen Manuscripten Ubersetzt mit Bemerkungen vom Dr. A. P. A. 

 Wiegmann. Selie Hujiboldt, A. t., Toyag. aux r'g. equinox., vi, p. 235, pll. 



Detailed account of its external characters, with measurements, of the mouth parts, and 

 some account of its digestive tract, food, and habits. PI. i gives views of the animal in pro- 

 file and from below; pi. ii, of the mouth, of the head from above and in profile, and an ideal 

 longitudinal section of the body. [935.] 



1838. KaXjP, J. J. [Ueber Ziibnen von Halytlierium und Pugmeodon aus Flonbeim. ] 

 <CNeues Jahrb. fiir Mineral., 1838, p. 319, pi. ii, D. figg. 1, 2, C. figg. 1, 2. 



Ralytherium duhium ; Pugmeodon Schinzii. [936.] 



1838. Kaup, J. J. [Ueber Zahuen von Haliihei-iiim. ] <^Keues Jahrb. fiir Mineral., 1833, 

 p. 536. [937.] 



1838. "Knox, F. J. Catalogueof Anatomical Preparations illustrative of the Wbale, 

 by F. J. Knox, Conservator of the Museum in Old Surgeons' Hall. 8°. 

 Edinburgh, 1838." 



Not seen; title and commentary here following from Gray (Cat. Mam. Brit. Mus., pt. 1, 

 Cetacea, 1850). 



"In 1828 Mr. F. J. Knox, the Conservator of the Museum of the Old Surgeons' Hall in 

 Edinburgh, published a catalogue of the Anatomical preparations of the "Whale, in which he 

 gives many interesting details on the anatomy of the Balcena, maxiynus and S. minimus, 

 which had been stranded near Edinburgh, of the fcetus of B. mysticetus from Greenland, and 

 of Delphinus Tursio (D. leueopleurus), D. Delphis and PJioccena com,munis, Soosoo gangeticus, 

 and Halicore Indicus; but the paper has been very generally neglected or overlooked," (loc. 

 dt, p. 3). 



"Mr. Knox (Cat. Prep. Whale) gives the best account of the development, position and 

 distinction between the baleen of the Whales of the Korth Sea which has come under my 

 observation" . . . (loc. cit, p. 7). 



"But the pamphlet in which these observations were published, being a mere guide to the 



