1876.] A Century’s Progress in American Zoélogy. 593 
ferson, T. Say, J. Bachmann, G. Ord, S. F. Baird, T. Gill, 
Harrison Allen, J. A. Allen, E. D. Cope, Elliott Coues, J. Y. 
Scammon, B. G. Wilder, and W. S. Barnard, should be mentioned, 
with the paleontological essays of R. Harlan, J. C. Warren, J. 
Leidy, Cope, and O. C. Marsh, together with Godman’s Rambles 
of a Naturalist and L. H. Morgan’s work on the beaver, and 
physiological essays by J. Wyman, S. Weir Mitchell, J. C. Dal- 
ton, and others. 
The ornithological works of Wilson, Bonaparte, Audubon, 
Nuttall, Baird, Cassin, and Coues, the more recent great work of 
Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Coues’s Birds of the Northwest, 
and the many descriptive and biological papers of other au- 
thors, such as T. M. Brewer, Ord, J. P. Giraud, J. K. Town- 
send, A. L. Heerman, G. N. Lawrence, H. W. Gambel, J. Xan- 
thus, H. W. Henshaw, H. Bryant, S. Cabot, T. M. Trippe, C. J. 
Maynard, and others, with the papers on distribution by Baird, 
A. E. Verrill, Allen, and R. Ridgway, together with those on 
fossil birds by Marsh and Cope, are all worthy of comparison 
with the best European works and papers. 
The reptiles and amphibians have been described by Harlan 
J. E. Holbrook, T. Say, J. Green, Baird, C. Girard, E. Hallow- 
ell, L. R. Gibbes, C. A. Lesueur, J. E. LeConte, L. Agassiz, 
and Cope, and an entire assemblage of forms in the western 
Cretaceous and Tertiary formations has been discovered by 
Leidy, Marsh, and Cope. The anatomy of the neryous system 
t kana pipiens, by Jeffries Wyman, is a classic, as are the 
researches of S. Weir Mitchell upon the Venom of the Rattle- 
Snake and the Researches on the Anatomy and Physiology of 
Respiration in the Chelonia by S. Weir Mitchell and G. R. 
Morehouse, , 
The fishes of North America have been worked up by S. L. 
Mitchell, Lesueur, C. S. Rafinesque, D. H. Storer, J. E. Dekay, 
Holbrook, Agassiz, Girard, J. P. Kirtland, J. C. Brevoort, Wy- 
man, Baird, Gill, Cope, W. O. Ayres, F. W. Putnam, T. G. 
Tellkampf, D. S. Jordan, H. C. Yarrow, C. C. Abbott, G. B. 
Goode, R. Bliss, S. W. Garman, and others; while the fossil 
forms have been described by J. H. and W. C. Redfield, Leidy, 
R. W. Gibbes, J. S. Newberry, Cope, and O. St. John. 
In entomology the writings of Say, the two LeContes, F. E. 
Melsheimer, - N. Hentz, T. W. Harris, S. S. Haldeman, R. von 
ten Sacken, B. Clemens, J. D. Dana, G. Horn, S. H. Scud- 
P. R. Uhler, H. Hagen, B. D. Walsh, A. S. Packard, Jr., 
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