CONTENTS. 



Dedication iii 



List of Subscribers. •>•■• iii 



Letter to the Subscribers , xi 



Preface xiii 



List of Plates xrii 



Contents xix 



Introduction 1 



General history of whales 10 



Natural history of the Balae'na Mysticetus 15 



General remarks on the economy of the whale 42 



Methods employed to capture the whale 47 



Early history of the British Whale Fishery 66 



Probable success of ditto 68 



Dangers attending ditto 71 



Natural history of the Balae'na Icelandica 86 



Ditto of the Balaenoptera Gibbar 92 



Ditto of the Balaenoptera Acuto-Rostrata 97 



Ditto of the Balaenoptera Jubartes 101 



Ditto of the Balaenoptera Rorqual 107 



The Anatomy of the Skeleton of the B. Rorqual 115 



The Natural History of the Monodons 130 



Ditto Monodon Microcephalus 142 



The Amanacus or Anaraak 145 



Natural History of the Physeter Macrocephalus 148 



Ditto of the Physeter Cylindricus 161 



Ditto of the Physeter Microps 162 



Ditto of the Physeter Mular 164 



Ditto of the Physeter Bidens Sowerbyi 165 



Ditto of the Physeter Gibbosa 168 



Ditto of the Delphinus Phoceana Communis 170 



Ditto of the Delphinus Didelphis 174 



Ditto of the Delphinus Orca 178 



