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60 feet, 29 feet; 62 feet, 37 feet; 66 feet, 31 feet. Another station 

 one of 65 feet, 27 feet; 60 feet, 27 feet; 60 feet, 24 feet; 70 feet, 

 28 feet. While a cow of 77 feet was 36 feet in girth, contained 

 a foetus of 4 feet, and was in milk. The last is of interest as the 

 milk could not be for the unborn fcetus, but must have belonged to 

 a calf nearly weaned, which seems to show that, like the domestic 

 cow, a cow may be in-calf and yet giving milk to an older calf. 



The smallest foetus I have seen was about 5 inches long, and 

 belongs to Principal Mackay, M.D., of Dundee University. I 

 got another about 7 inches long, and sent it to Dr. Harmer of 

 Cambridge University. The growth of the fcetus from this stage 

 must be very rapid. One of 13 feet 6 had signs of baleen in the 

 gum. Last year Mr. Harvie Brown gave an account of twin foetuses 

 in a B. sibbaldii cow. Twins were found in a B. musculus in 1904 

 at Faroe, and in 1903, Captain Castberg of the Norrona station, 

 also found twins of small size in a B. musculus. 



DISEASES, ETC. 



On 1 2th June there was a bull Finner at the Alexandra station 

 60 feet long, which had a tumour 4 feet 3 inches in length, 16 inches 

 wide, and 1 1 inches deep. The matter was decomposed but not 

 otherwise offensive. Captain Castberg once got a Finner which had 

 two vertebras of the back joined together and much decayed. 



Herr Foden, at Ronas Voe, got a Finner 75 feet long, which 

 only yielded half a barrel of oil. The blubber was hard and dry, 

 and contained no oil, the whale had a bad smell, and was evidently 

 ill, probably from old age. At the Alexandra station on 26th 

 May, I took four specimens of Pennella l>alcenoptene l from the 

 back of a cow whale. These were about seven inches long. I 

 came across another whale (Finner) with two or three bushels of 

 Nematode worms in the stomach. 2 This is the first time I have 

 found internal parasites in a whale. 



I took the temperature of a Finner whale just under the blubber, 

 it had been dead for eighteen hours, and was 85 Fahr. 



FOOD. 



I last year pointed out that Finner whales only eat herrings 

 when shrimps are not to be got. My observations this year con- 

 firm this. At the Olna station the only two whales fed on herrings, 

 which are recorded, were got on 3ist August, and these I happen 

 to know were got north-east of Shetland. The Shetland station 



1 See "Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin.," vol xxi. part ii. No. 18. 



- I am indebted to Dr. Harmer, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, 

 for telling me these have been determined by Dr. Von Listow as Ascaris simplex, 

 a species which also occurs in the Porpoise (Phocana comnutnis). 



