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Dalm. Ten; to Uppstiillniug och Beskrifning af de i Sverige funne Terebratuliter ; af 

 J. W. Dalmau ; in Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handlingar for tir 1827, pp. 85-180; t. i-vi, 

 Stockholm, 1828, 8vo. 



Chenu, Man.; to Manuel de Conchyliologie et de Pal^ontologie Conchyliologiqae, par lo 

 Dr. J. C. Chenu, t. ii, Paris, 1862, gr. 8vo. 



Woodw. Man.; to A Manual of the Mollusca, or, a Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and 

 Fossil Shells, by S. P. "Woodward, &c. London, 1851-56, 12mo. 



Paetel, Fain. u. Gatt. Moll.; to Die biaher veroffentlichten Familien- und Gattungsnameu 

 der Mollusken, zus. von Fr. Paetel, Berlin, 1875, 8vo. 



A work containing more and worse typographical and other errors than any 

 other book, of a scientific tendency, known to me. 



Regent's Rep.; tothe( — ) Annual Report of the Regents of the University, on the condi- 

 tion of the State Cabinet of Natural History, and the Historical and Antiquarian 

 Collection annexed thereto. Made to the senate ( — ). Albany (New York), &c. 

 8vo. (Blue books.) 



Of the series, Nos. Ill, IV, and VII to XXVII all contain, in the form of appen- 

 dices, matter relating to the geology, mineralogy, paleontology, botany, genei'al 

 natural history, ethnology, or philology of America, chiefly that division of each 

 subject relating to the State of New York. In each of these departments, some 

 of the papers are of permanent value and importance, which nee'd not be speci- 

 fied in relation to the long series of paleontological notices by Prof. James Hall 

 and others. The third rej)ort appeared in 1850, and they have continued, at 

 rather irregular intervals, to be issued for each year up to that for the year 1875, 

 which is believed to be partly printed, (January, 1877). The title in each begins 

 with the serial number of the report and ends with the date of presentation to 

 the State legislature. The date at the bottom of the title-page is usually that of 

 the year of presentation ; but in this and in the verbal construction of the title 

 the reports are not uniform. In the earlier ones, there is very rarely any date 

 referring to the actual time of publication, which latter might difi'er from that 

 on the title-page by a year or more. The appendices in which the scientific 

 papers are comprised, should it be required , are subject to revision up to the time 

 of publication. The latter date, in the case of those cited, has been obtained 

 from trustworthy contemporaneous authority in all cases, and is believed to bo 

 essentially correct ; but a reference to American paleontological literature will 

 show several instances of the difficulties with which this unfortunate want of 

 exactitude in the matter of dates has beset the path of the contemporary student. 



Note. — The table of geological distribution rests in part on a similar 

 table published by Mr. Davidson in the Annales de la Soc. Malac. de 

 Belgique, t. x, 1875, though numerous changes and additions have been 

 introduced and a diiierent form of i)resentation preferred. 



Names contained in bare lists and catalogues without definitions it 

 has not been attempted to enumerate, except when the publication was 

 of the nature of a nomenclator. 



Etymologies have, for the most part, been intentionally ignored. 



