15V II. II. SCOTT AND CLIVE E. LORD. ;> 



During the dissection of these two animals various 

 data were collected that are of greater individual than 

 general utility, and they are therefore not detailed in the 

 present text. By way of giving a comprehensive survey of 

 the skull characters, available to us, a large comparative 

 tablo has been drawn up and is hereunder appended. Two 

 young dolphins in tin collection of the Ilobart Museum, 

 which measure four feet two, and four feet four respectively, 

 are available to us. They were captured in the Derwemt, 

 and prepared by Mr. Arnold of tin Museum SiaiT. Mount- 

 ed specimens are notoriously untrustworthy, as to out- 



but a curious mobility of the snout from tin 

 striction upwards suggests an outline that is actually ap- 

 proached in lit' when dolphins are racing ai lull 

 through the water. It is, as far as our observations go, a 

 prelude to a thoracic flexure, and a distinct shiver i 

 seen to run from stem to stern of this living ship- -and 

 follows the enormous caudal effort that complei 

 tion. The hiad and thorax of a dolphin immobile 



than is commonly sup] nd c phalio, thoracic, and 



I flexures can be distinctly ol sunlit 



when dolphins in sportive mood are swimming ar 

 a ship. (Plato II.) 



