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lished in Hvalrddets Skrifter. The latter authors, having access to the log books of factory 

 ships, give certain particulars, such as the distribution and movements of the whaling 

 fleet, which do not appear in the International Statistics, and carry the analysis of the 

 data to a more advanced stage. Other papers cited are listed on p. 298. 



The first paper mentioned above (1929) is a general report on the results of the earlier 

 work at whaling stations, mainly at South Georgia, and it was prepared when, in 1927, 

 1683 whales (not all Blue and Fin whales) had been examined. Work at the whaling 

 stations and in factory ships was continued for some years afterwards, and although 

 subsequent papers by Wheeler and Matthews were partly based on the new material 

 there are data on several thousand additional whales which have not hitherto been fully 

 analysed. Particulars are given in Table 1. Besides the whales shown here, Mr Laurie, 



in the 'Southern Princess' in 1932-3, recorded particulars of 1698 Blue, 302 Fin, and 

 24 Humpback whales. These, however, are not listed in Table 1 because a considerable 

 number of them were not examined, or only partially examined by himself. Other 



