58 THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 



the coast of New Jersey. Cope possessed a wider knowledge of the Cetacea thau 

 any other American zoologist and he was very properly looked upon as the foi-emost 

 exponent of cetology in America. On account of the impoi'tance of his work his publi- 

 cations will be given special consideration in a separate chapter. (See pp. 78 et seq.). 



Reinhardt published in 1868 a supplement to Hallas's article on the Iceland 

 Sulphurbottom, in which he described the skull and some other parts of the skeleton 

 of one of the specimens examined by the latter.' He takes up the question of the 

 identity of the Gi'eenland "Tunnolik," and concludes that it is the same species as 

 the Iceland "Steypiredr" and the European Sulphurbottom, usually known as B. 

 sibhaldil I = £. miisculus (L.)]. 



Dr. J. A. Allen published a catalogue of the mammals of Massachusetts in 

 1869, in which was included a list of cetaceans, with notes by Capt. N. E. Atwood, 

 and identifications by Cope. Capt. Atwood was a lifelong resident of Province- 

 town and thoi'ougldy acquainted with matters pertaining to the fisheries, and his 

 comments on the different species ai'e of much importance." 



In 1869 the name of Capt. C. M. Scaramon first became known to zoologists, 

 through a remarkable contribution on the Cetaceans of the Western Coast of 

 Noi'th America, published under the editoi'sliip of Prof. E. D. Cope.'' This papier 

 was submitted to tlie Smithsonian Institution, and referred by the then Secretary, 

 Joseph Heniy, to Prof. Cope, " wdtli a request to publish such parts as should be 

 deemed valuable to zoology, and to add such elucidation and explanation as would 

 contribute to the same end." As published, it really consists of two i>arts, a sys- 

 tematic paper by Cope and a genei'al natural history essay by Scammon. The 

 correspondence of Scammon indicates that he was not well satisfied with this 

 an-angement, and would rather have named the species himself. At a latei- date 

 he did name a species, which he discovered in Puget Sound. The [)roportion of 

 original matter in the article of 1869 is seldom equalled in zoological writings. 

 It forms the basis of our knowledge of the cetaceans of the west coast of North 

 America, and, indeed, has been but little added to, except by Scammon himself, 

 either directly or indirectly. Scammon sent many valuable specimens to the 

 Smithsonian Institution, including most of the material mentioned in this article and 

 in his later and larger work, entitled " Marine Mammals of the Northwestern Coast 

 of North America" (1874). A large part of the natural history matter relating to 

 the Right whales was reprinted by Capt. Scammon in the Overland Magazine in 

 1871, with some slight modifications.'* 



In 1872 Scammon published a diagnosis of a small species of Balienoptera 



'Reinhardt, J., Nogle Bemsrkningen om Islsendernes "Steypiredr." Videns. Meddch. 

 naturhist. Foren. Kjoben., Aar. 1867, 1S68, pp. 17S-201. 



'Allen, J. A., Catalogue of the Mammals of Massachusetts: With a Critical Revision of 

 Species. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., i, No. 8, 1869, pp. 202-207. 



'Scammon, C. M., On the Cetaceans of the Western Coast of North America. Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1869, pp. 13-63. 



* Anon., Northern Whaling. Overland Mag., June, 1871, pp. 548-554. Also in an earlier 

 number. This information I have from Prof. Spencer F. Baird. 



