TILE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 59 



which he called B. davidsoni, from a specimen ol)t;vined in Admiralty Inlet, 

 Paget Sound.' He afterwards figured this species in his Marine Mammals. 



The larger work already meiitioueel — Scammon's Marine Mammals — aj)- 

 peared in 1874.~ In this, the matter in the earlier article is repeated with various 

 corrections and amplifications, and an extensive account of the American wliale 

 fishery is added. The book is illustrated by figures of various species of whales 

 and porpoises which are among the best found in cetological literature, although 

 Dot all of them are above criticism in point of accui'acy. An appendix to the 

 work was prepared by Mr. Wm. H. Dall, in which the Nortii Pacific species 

 of Cope, Scammon, and other writers are arranged systematically, and elucidated 

 by notes, measui'ements, etc. 



Dr. Moritz Lindeman published in 1869 a very comprehensive work on Arctic 

 fisheries.'' Among the numerous subjects touched upon are the North Pacific 

 Right-whale and Gray-whale fisheries, the Hum[)back fishery, etc. Relative to 

 the North Pacific fisheries, Lindeman rpioted a long letter from M. E. Pechuel, 

 who accompanied the New Bedford whaler Alasmcli iiaetts to Bering Sea in 1865. 

 This letter contains much valuable information regarding the Right whale of the 

 North Pacific. Lindeman also published a communication fi-om Captain Seabury of 

 New Bedford on the principal whaling stations of the world, containing numerous 

 facts relative to the geograpliical distribution of the Right whales, Humpbacks, 

 and Gray whales. Coming from persons directly concei-ned in the whale fisheiy, 

 these two communications are of special impoi'tance. Dr. Lindeman's article as 

 a whole contains an immense amount of valuable information relative to the 

 whale fishery. (See also p. 61.) 



The repoits of the fisheries branch of the Canadian Department of Mai'ine 

 and Fisheries, beginning with 1870, contain a few notices of the whale fishery in 

 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but very little indeed is said about the whales 

 themselves.^ 



Pechuel in 1871 took up the subject of the whale fishery in a series of illus- 

 trated articles published in the German periodical, Bas AuslandJ' The last article 

 of the series is on the natural history of the whales, and is accompanied by original 



' Scammon, C. M., On a New Species of Balsenoptera. Proc. Calif. Acad. Set., 4, 1873, pp. 

 269-270. Published in advance, Oct. 4, 1872. 



" Scammon, C. M., The Marine Mammals of the North-western Coast of North America, 

 described and illustrated ; together with an account of the .\merican Whale-Fishery. San Fran- 

 cisco, 1874. 4 . 



' Lindeman, M., Die Arktische Fischerei der Deutschen Seestadte, 1620-1868. Petermanns 

 Geog. Mittheil. Ergaiizungs/ieft, No. 26, 1869, pp. 1-118, pis. 1-2. 



* The notices are in the following volumes: Annual Report Dept. Marine and Fish. Canada 

 for 1870, appendix of Marine Branch, p. 232 ; Report for 1871, appendix. Fisheries Branch, p. 27; 

 Report for 1872, appendix, do., p. 16; 6th Report for 1873, appendix, do., p. 18; 8th Report for 1875, 

 Supplement 4, Reft. Comr. Fisheries, p. 49; P^/' Report for 1876, Supplement 4, Repi. Comr. Fisheries, 

 p. 65; JOth Report for 1877, Supplements, Rept. Comr. Fisheries, p. 20; nth Report for 1878, Sup- 

 plement 4, Rcpt. Comr. Fisheries, p. 49; ist Annual Rept. Dept. Fisheries for 1884, p. 171. 



" Pechuel-Loesche, M. E., Wale und Walfang. Das Ausland, 44, 187 1, Nos. 42-50. 



