660 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



1840. EscHRiciiT, [D. F.]. [Over DelpliinGrnesog SaelliumTes Karsystemer.] <C.Fdr- 

 handlingar vid det af Skandinaviska Naturforslmre och Lakare hdllna Mote i 

 Gothberg ar 1839 (1840), pp. 135, 136. [987.] 



1840. GosSE, P. H. The | Canadian Naturalist. | A Series of conversations | on the | 

 Natural History of Lower Canada. | By [ P[hilip]. HCenry]. Gosse. | Cor. 

 Mem. of the Nat. Hist. Soc. of Montreal, and of the | Lit. and Hist. Soc. of 

 Quebec. | [Vi<?nette.] "Every kingdom, every province, should have its 

 own monographer." | Gilbert White. | Illustrated by forty-four Engravings. | 

 London: John Van Voorst, 1, Paternoster Eow. | M. DCCC. XL. 8°. pp. i- 

 xii, 1-372. 



Observations on tho habits of Delphinus canadensis (= Beluga catodon) and D. delphis at 

 pp. 171-174. [988.] 



1840. Grateloup, [J. P. S. de]. Description | d'un fragment de machoire fossile, | 

 D'un genre nouveau de reptile (Saurien), de taille gigantesque, | voisin de 

 riguaaodon, trouvd dans le Gr^s marins, h L^ognan, | pres Bordeaux (Gi- 

 ronde); | Parle docteur Grateloup. 8°. pp. 1-8, 1 pi. [Bordeaux, le 1 mai 

 1840. Imprimerie d'H. Gazay, rue Gouvion 15. ] 



Squalodon, gen. n., p. 8. This is the original place of description of the genus Squalodon, 

 here regarded as Saurian, hut later identified as Cetacean, and the basis of the Squalodon 

 grateloupi, auct. [989.] 



1840. Grateloup, [J. P. S. de]. Considdrations gdnerales sur la Gdologie et la 

 Zoologie fossile de la commune de L6ognan, prfes Bordeaux. Discours pro- 

 nonc6 a I'occasion de la fete linndeune cdl6br6e le 25 juin 1840. <^Act. Soc. 

 linn, de Bordeaux, xi, 1840, pp. 335-346. 



Squalodon, gen. n., p. 346. Also refers to the occurrence of remains "des Dauphins efc au- 

 tres C6taces." [990.] 



1840. Harlan, [Eichard]. [On the Discovery of the BasUosaurus and the Batra- 

 cMosaurus.^ <^Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond., i, 1840, pp. 23, 24. , 



Abstract. [991.] 



1840. Hkrausgeber. E. Eichwald: die Urwelt Eusslands durch Abbildungen er- 

 lautert, Heft I, 73 SS, 8'^ mit 4 lithogr. Tafeln, auf Kosten der mineralog. 

 Gesellsch. in Petersb. 1840. <^Neues Jahrb. far Mineral., Geogn., Geol. und 

 Petrefakt., 1840, pp. 731,732. 



Notiz. [992.] 



1840. Herausgeber. G. D. Bruno: Beleuchtung eines neuen fossilen Cetaceum. 

 (Mem. d. Accad. di Turino, Class. Mat. Fis. B, 1 [20 Seiten] tab. 1, 2.) 

 <^Neucs Jahrh.filr Mineral., 1840, pp. 49G-501. 

 Auszug. [993.] 



1840. Herausgeber. Harlan: liber einige fossile Wirbelthiere Nord Amerika, 

 (Bullet, geol., 1839, x, 89, 90). <^Nems Jahrb. fiir Mineral., 1840, pp. 741, 742. 

 Enthalt Bemerkungen Uber BasUosaurus, p. 741. [994.] 



1840. Johnson, [H.]. Ueber den flaschennasigen Walfisch (ITf/iJeroof^ow). <^Froriep's 

 Neue Nolizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur-und Heilkunde, xv, No. 4, Juli 1840, 

 p. 58. 



External measurement, etc., of a specimen taken near Liverpool. [995 ] 



1840. Johnson, Henry. Bottle-hosed Whale. <^Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., v, Julys 

 1840, pp. 3G1, 382. Communicated, with a note, by Wm. Thompson. 



Description of a specimen oiSyperoodon butzkopf tsk.eiB. near Liverpool, Feb., 1840. [996.] 

 1840. Kaup, J. J. Notizen iiber die fossilen sogenannten Gras- fressenden Wale. 

 <^Neuc:i Jahrb. fiir Mineral., etc., 1840, pp. 673-676. 



Gegen Christol {Aim. des Sci. nat., 1834, ii, 257) iiber den Cuvierschcn Hippopotamus 

 medius und H. dvMus. Synonymie von Halitherium Cuvieri Kaup und Halicore Cavieri 

 Christol, p. 675. 



Po7itotlicrium, gen. n. = Gheirotherium Christol, ein schon vergebenen Name. Manatus fos- 

 silis CuxieT ^=Fugmeodon Schinzii Kaup. [997.] 



