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Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal for January 1841, 

 with a representation of the hinder part of the skeleton, from 

 which the figure here given, greatly reduced in size, was 

 taken. Another specimen was washed ashore near Scar- 

 borough, and is now preserved in the museum there : this 

 specimen weighed one hundred and twenty pounds. A spe- 

 cimen which weighed two hundred pounds was exhibited for 

 several days in a fishmonger's shop in London in December 

 1840. The Rev. J. M. Colson sent me notice of one that 

 was taken in Swanage Bay ; and another was taken at the Isle 

 of Purbeck. The Rev. Robert Holdsworth of Brixham has 

 written to me of a small one, about eighteen inches long, that 

 was caught off the Start Point. My friend Mr. George Mello 

 sent me various particulars of a specimen taken in the autumn 

 of 1839, about three miles from Ilfracombe. This example 



