FERUSSAC AND DORBIGNYS HISTOIRE NATURELLE GENERALE ET PARTICULIERE DES CEPHALOPODES ACETABULIFERES - DATES OF PUBLICATION OF PLATES AND TEXT

Ferussac and d'Orbigny's ''Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des Cephalopodes acetabuliferes'' is an essential contribution to teu thology, because of the numerous new species described, and because it represents the Brst important compilation of cephalopods. Issued betw een 1834 and 1848, in 21 livraisons, the actual dates of publication o f most of its parts were hitherto uncertain. A thorough bibliographic search has allowed us to gather new information about the publication of this work. We can now identify and date precisely the 30 plates iss ued in 1834 and the 72 plates issued in 1835; the remaining 42 plates are dated 1839-1841 or 1839-1842. D'Orbigny's text was issued between 1839 and 1848 (livraison 12-21). The last three livraisons (1845-1848) included only text.