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Metacarpal bone of thumb —Length 



„ Breadth at base 

 Ditto of fore finger— Length 



„ Breadth at base . 

 Do. of middle finger— Length 



,, Breadth at base 

 Do. of fourth finger ~ Length 



,, Breadth at base . 

 Do. of little finger— Length 



„ Breadth at base . 



Inches 



1^ 



1| 

 0.3 



2^ 

 ^s 



4 



2| 



3j 



2| 



2 



The phalanges gradually diminish towards the points of 

 the fingers : 



The thumb containing 2 bones, and a third phalanx of cartilage 



The index finger .... 5 bones 



The middle finger ... 5 bones 



The fourth finger .... 3 and a fourth phalanx of cartilage 



The little finger 3 bones 



OF THE PELVIS. 



The pelvis, as I mentioned before, was not recovered from 

 the whale of which the skeleton is set up. It is a skeleton, 

 however, entire, except in this respect. I obtained after- 

 wards from the other carcass on the open beach at Botany, 

 although it was in an advanced state of decomposition, the 

 greater part of those soft parts, in which, while the animal 

 was alive, the pelvic bones were suspended. Unfortunately, 

 one-half nearly had been carried away by the heavy seas 

 which dashed on the beach, although enough remained in two 

 bones of one side, to prove that the rudimentary pelvis of the 

 sperm whale of the Pacific Ocean is of much the same con- 

 struction as that of the right whale of the Southern Ocean, 

 which, with that of the Cape Rorqual, was examined at the 

 Cape of Good Hope for M. Cuvier, by M. de la Lande, as 

 mentioned in the Oss. Foss., vol. ix., p. 302. 



