DISCOVERY 

 REPORTS 



Vol. XV, pp. 223-284 



Issued by the Discovery Committee, Colonial Office, London 

 on behalf of the Qovemment of the Dependencies of the Falkland Islands 



THE AGE OF FEMALE BLUE WHALES 

 AND THE EFFECT OF WHALING ON 



THE STOCK 



by 

 Alec H. Laurie, M.A. 



CAMBRIDGE 



AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 



1937 

 Price nine shillings net 



