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Paleontological Note PALEONTOLOGICAL NOTE PUBLICATION DATES OF HEILPRIN'S EXPLORATIONS ON THE WEST COAST OF FLORIDA RICHARD E . PETIT and DRUID WILSON * NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Angelo Heilprin 's Explorations on the and distributed in 1886 and that the new west coast of Florida and in the Okeechob ee taxa on those pages should date from that wilderness, with special reference to th e ·year. geology and zo ology of the Floridian Penin­ In 1887 the Explorations was issued in its sula (hereaf ter referred to as Ex plorations ) entirety as Volume 1 of the Transactions of was published as Volume 1 of the Transac­ the Wagner Free Institute of Science of tions of t he Wag ner Free Institute of Sci­ Philadelphia . The 1887 title page differs ence of Phil adelphia . The new taxa pro­ from the 1886 title page in two respects: the posed by Heilprin in thi s work have been date of 1886 was changed to 1887 , and th e consistently cited in th e literature as datin g title of the paper was shortened by use of a from 1887. The purpose of this paper is to period after wilderness instead of the show that most of the new tax a properl y comma used there in the original title , ef­ date from 1886. fectively making "with special reference to In the library of the Division of Mollusks , the geology and zoology of the Floridian National Museum of N atural History, there Peninsula" a subtitle . The only other dis­ is a copy of the Explorations consisting of cernible difference between the 1886 and pages 65-127, with a title page bearing the 1887 title pages is that the word Explora­ full title of the work and the printed date of tions is in slightly smaller type on the 1887 1886. Th is copy also has a cover on heavier title page . stock with the same printed matter as the The final version of the Explorations als o title page. Between the cover and title has a volume title page denoting the work page is i nserted a printed tab with the as Volume 1 of the Transactions of th e legend "Pages 1-64, and the plates to ac­ Wagner Free Institute of Science of company t he report - unavoidably delayed Philadelphia, and bearing the date of Ma y , - a re in cour se of publication ." Further in­ 1887. Between this volume title page and ternal evidence of this separate publication the Explorations title page, there is an ad­ of the pa rt s is s een in the final printin g ditional page listing the Trustees and Fa c­ wher e two extra pages, numbered 64A ulty of the Wagner Free Institute of Sci­ and 64B , had to be inserted after the 4th ence. The copy of the final version in the li­ signature (the 5th signature beginning with brary of the Division of Mollusks , Nation a l page 65), as a result of the text being longer Museum of Natural History has , under the than anticipated . printed date of May, 1887 on the volum e Externa l evidence supporting the print­ title page , the holograph notation "Rec 'd . ed d ate o f 1886 exists in a review of pages June 21st" in Dall's handwriting. 65-127 published by Dall in 1886 (Dall, 1886 , This copy, and the copy in the library of p. 2). Th e only correct bibliographic cita­ the senior author, has as the running title tion of the Explorations that we have been Transactions of the Wagner Free (verso ) In­ able to locate is that of Darton (1896, p . 468) stitute of Science (recto ). The running titl e who err s only in his substitution of western is mentioned as there was a later printin g, for west in the title. identical to the original except for the run­ Given these facts , it is obvious that pages ning title . The date of this later printing ha s 65-127 of the Explorations were printed not been established , but the junior au­ thor 's copy was purchased directl y from *Research Associates . (Department of In­ the Wagner Free Institute in 1938 , and it i s vertebr ate Zoology and Department of this later printing. In this printing the run­ Paleobiology , respectively) ning title is Explorat ions in Florida (verso ) 95 96 Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology Vol.rn and an indication of the subject under dis­ especial reference to the Miocenesile x. cussion, e.g., Little Sarasota Bay (recto). beds of Tampa and the Pliocene bedsoi The only other difference in this printing is the Caloosahatchie River: Wagner Free that the title page listing the Trustees and Inst. Sci. Phila. , Trans .,v. 3 {1-6), p.1. Faculty is placed after the title page . 1654, 60 pis. The Explorations was reprinted by th e DALL, W. H ., 1915, A monograph ofth e Paleontological Research Institution in molluscan fauna of the Orthaulax PU!· 1964 as Volume IV, number 33, of Paleon ­ nax zone of the Oligocene of Tampa tographica Americana. This reprint has th e Florida: U.S. Nat. Mus., Bull. 90,p.l- running title of the original printing. 173, 26 pis . Heilprin's taxa have been reviewed in DARTON , N . H., 1896, Catalogue and several fauna! studies (Dall, 1890-1903, index of contributions to North Ameri­ 1915; Mansfield, 1937; Olsson and Harbi ­ can geology 1732-1891: U. S . Geo!. son, 1953; and others) and in variou s Surv., Bull. 127, p. 1-1045. monographs of included genera. Without HEILPRIN , A., 1886, Exploration s onthe exception the date of 1887 has been cited west coast of Florida and i n the for all taxa of the Explorations. On e Okeechobee wilderness, with speci~ nomenclatural change, as a result of cor­ reference to the geology and zoologyol rect dating, is the reinstatement of Mitra the Floridian Peninsula: Wagn er Free lineolata Heilprin, 1886, previousl y Inst. Sci. Phila., Trans . ,v. 1,p . 65-127. thought to be preoccupied by Mitra HEILPRIN, A. , 1886-1887, Explorationson lineolata Bellard,i, 1887 ,_a_n_d unnecessarily the west coast of Florida and in the renamed Mitra heilprini Cossmann, 1899. Okeechobee wilderness : Wagner Free Inst. Sci. Phila ., Trans., v. 1, 1886t ille- page, p. 65-127; 1887 - p. i-xiv + 1-64" 64A, B + 128-136, pis. 1-19 + 16a +li e LITERATURE CITED + 2 unnumbered. DALL, W. H., 1886, Review of General MANSFIELD, W . C., 1937, Mollusksofthe Summary and conclusions of a voyage Tampa and Suwannee Lim estones in south Florida under the auspices of Florida Geo!. Surv., Bull. 15 , p. 1-334. the Wagner Free Institute of Science, 21 pis . made by Prof . Heilprin and Mr. Joseph OLSSON, A. A., and A. HARBISON. Willcox, by Angelo Heilprin: The Eve­ 1953, Pliocene mollusca of s outhern ning Post, New York, Dec. 23rd. p. 2. Florida, with special reference to tho~ DALL, W. H., 1890-1903, Contributions to from St . Petersburg: Acad. Nat. Sci the Tertiary Fauna of Florida, with Phila. , Mon. 8, p. 1-457, 65 pis. July 31, 1986 REVIE\V QUATERNARY GEOLOGY AND ENVI­ pers can be divided into six parts, Quater: RONMENT OF CHINA, by Liu Tung­ nary Stratigraphy (8 whole texts, l sheng. Publishedby China Ocean Press, abstracts); Lithology and Gen esis ol Beijing , China, and distributed by Quaternary Deposits (10, 2); Quaternar) Springer-Verlag , Berlin, Heidelberg, Flora and Fauna (6, 3); Quaternary New York , and Tokyo, 1985, x + 301 Paleogeography (13, 5); Prehistoric Man pp. , illus. , $69.50 and his Material Culture (1, 1); and, Natu· ral Resources of Quaternary Dep osits (l Preparatory to the 11th INQUA Con­ 2). gre ss in August 1982, a symposium was Much useful information is in cluded held at Beijing in February 1982, sum­ though the volume suffers from the un· marizing the result of Quaternary research evennes s ch aracteristic of symposiur in China in recent years. The forty-two pa­ compilations. However, it does presentt pers and eighteen abstracts presented overview of Quaternary research i n Chini here are from that symposium. These pa- which is a valuable reference. --H.CI .
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