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KNOX ON THE CETAOEA. 



Tabular View of the Number of the Vertehrce 

 (Cephalic vertebree excluded.) 



certain Cetacea. 



In a late number of the ' Bulletins of the Eoyal Academy of 

 Brussels ' I find some valuable remarks in respect of these points 

 by M. Van Beneden. He praises, and deservedly, no doubt, the 

 exertions of M. Eschricht to collect a proper Museum of the 

 Cetacea. It appears, according to M. Eschricht, that at no age 

 whatever do we find in true whales (meaning, I presume, the 



