BOOK bones- of. large e x o t ick animals found buried in the government o f Cafan.__
i— ^ Accounts ,of Thibet, from the relations of fome Tangut Lamas [jprieilsj
among the Mongols of Selenginlk.— Defcription of the mountain Altai, from
-a Chinefe book, tranflated in 1 759 h}’ Rofiokin, &c.— Journal of an expedi-
■ non| over the ice, made by Andreef, Leontief, and Lyffof, to the Bear Iflands
in the Frozen Ocean, near the mouth of the Kovyma.— Geographical de-
. fcription of the river Anadyr and the rivulets which it receives.— Particular
accounts of the Tchutlki promontory, and the neighbouring iflands, tranflated
from the Ruffian.— Account of the Journal of captain Krenitzin and
Ixvaihef from Kamtchatka to the New Difcovered Iflands, as far as Alaika,
on the American Continent; from Coze’s Ruffian Difcoveries.— On the
difcoveries in the Eaftern Ocean between Siberia and America, with a chart
of the faid difcoveries.— Short defcription of the ceremonies obferved from
the zzd of June, 1729, to the 12th of July, in the village of Urga upon the
river Elbina, at the new-birth of the Kutukta, one of the moft celebrated
priefts among the Mongols.— Defcription of the art ftill praflifed at Ailracan
of preparing ihagreen.— On the migration of the large water-mice (mus
amphibms) generally called water-rat, upon the Volga.
, The iecond volume contains the following treatiies,
Defcription of the djhigetai, or wild-mule, found in the deferts of Middle
Afia, from the Latin account of the fame author in the New Commentaries,
with a coloured figure.— Obfervation on the onager of the antients, or
the wild-afs, from the French in Ait. Acad. Pet. for 17,77, with an engraving
of the animal.— Account of two American monkeys (Simla Jacchus),
which have propagated their breed at Peteriburgh— Defcription of the Surinam
heron, or ardea belias, with a coloured engraving Remarks on tapeworms,
in regard to the 12th and 14th article in the Naturforfcher.~]omm\
of the route of a caravan in 1727 and 1728, from Kiakta to Pekin, under the
direflion of the agent Laurence Lange.— Journal of the route of a caravan
in 1736, from Zurukaitu through Mongolia to Pekin.— Geographical and
hiftorical defcription of Pekin.— Remarks upon the Labrador ftone. Topographical
and phyfical defcription of Beering’s Ifland, extrafled from
Steller’s papers.— Short defcription of Copper Ifland, extrafled front
the papers -of Peter Yakovflaf, who failed there in 1755— Account of a
fcur years’ voyage to the iflands between Afia and America, made in 1772
* A -chart o f this expedition is given in the Ruffian Difcoverie s.
by
P R O F E S S O R P A L L A S .
by Demetri Bragin, and communicated to .Mr. Pallas at Irkutik.— Extrafl: CHAP-
‘from a journal of a voyage, made by Ivan Solovief in 1770 to 177R, to the v n *
American promontory, called Alafka. ' "J
The third volume, which made its appearance in 178 3
contains thefe treatifes by Mr. Pallas.
Defcription of two remarkable South-American birds, the Cuculus Tene-
Irofus, and Pirns Mnutiffimus— Account of Daniel Gotlieb Weflerfchmidt’s
feven years journey through Siberia.— Route from Kiof to Conftantinople
■in the year 1714, tranflated from the Ruffian.— Journal of a voyage in 177
to explore the coaft of America north of California, by the Second Pilot of
the Spanilh fleet, Don Francifco Antonio Maurelle, in the king’s fchoonet
Sonora, commanded by Don John Francifco de la Bodega.— Extrafl from
Saikof’s Journal of a Voyage to the weftern coafts of America Conjeflures
on the origin of the 'Americans— Short extrafl: from the Hiftory of Georgia.
— Defcription of the folemn burning of a lama, or prieft’s body.
In 1782 he put forth two fafciculi, or numbers, o f leones
Infeciarum, prrefertim RuJJtre, Siberiaque peculiarium, 8cc.
quarto, Erlang ; or Figures o f Infers, principally o f thofe
which are peculiar to Ruflia and Siberia, accompanied with
defcriptions and illuftrations. Thefe two numbers treat o f
the fcarabcei, curculiones, tenebriones, bupejlres, meloedes, ce~
rambyces, with fix plates, containing coloured figures o f x 80
infefts o f thofe genera.
By intelligence received during the courfe o f laft year, we
find that he is employed in the arrangement and publication
of a fplendid work, which is to be done at the empreffes expence,
and is to contain the entire botany o f the Ruffian
empire. It is to be emhellifhed with feveral hundred plates
o f the more ufeful or fcarce plants. It will be o f the large
fized paper, and will be delivered out in numbers.
Exclufive o f thefe feparate publications, he has likewife
read before the imperial academy the following diflertations,
V ol. II. 7 , . I
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