58 On Sowerhy^s Whale (Mesoplodon bldens). 



4. A young female stranded at Ostend on 31st Aug., 1835, 

 the complete skeleton of which is in the Brussels Museum. 



5. The second British specimen was stranded in the Bay of 

 Brandon, Kerry, on the 9th of March, 1864. It was a male 

 15 feet in length ; unfortunately it was destroyed before it 

 was seen by a naturalist ; but Dr. Busteed succeeded in secu- 

 ring part of the head, which had been removed immediately 

 behind the frontal portion of the skull, and photographed it in 

 several positions while yet quite fresh. The photographs 

 were reproduced in a paper by Mr. Andrews, published in the 

 * Transactions of the Koyal Irish Academy,' xxiv. 1869. 



6. The mandible of a specimen taken on the Norwegian 

 coast is preserved in the Museum of Christiania, and figured 

 and described by Van Beneden (Bulletin de I'Acad. Royal 

 de Belgique, t. xxii. 1866). 



7. A specimen, believed to be the first met with in America, 

 was standed on Nantucket Island, Mass., U. S., about the 

 year 1867, the cranium of which is in the Harvard College 

 Museum. 



8. A complete skeleton of a male in the Gottenburg Museum 

 from Skagerak, Norway, in 1869. 



9. A second Irish specimen occurred 31st May, 1870, five 

 or six miles from the site of the first capture in Brandon Bay, 

 and was also observed by Dr. Busteed. It was a male 17 or 

 18 feet long, and, like the previous specimen, was hacked to 

 pieces so as to be of little service to science. From each tooth 

 of this animal depended a bunch of cirripeds believed to be 

 Conchoderma aurita. It is recorded by Mr. Andrews (Proc. 

 Royal Irish Acad. ser. 2, i. p. 49). 



10. The skull of a specimen preserved in the Museum of 

 Science and Art, Edinburgh, is thought by Prof. Turner, 

 " not unlikely" to have belonged to an animal captured in the 

 Scottish seas (Trans. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, May 20, 1872). 



11. A female captured on 3rd Feb., 1880, at Herringholm 

 Strand, on the east coast of Jutland, was described by Prof. 

 Reinhardt, but the skeleton was not preserved. 



12. On the 9th Nov., 1881, a male about 15 feet long was 

 found floating dead off Vanholmen, near Marstrand, Sweden ; 

 like previous specimens it was partly flensed before being seen 

 by Dr. Malm, who, however, has given an excellent descrip- 

 tion of what he saw (quoted by Prof. Turner) ; he also secured 

 the skeleton for the Gottenburg Museum. 



13. This specimen forms the subject of a communication 

 by Prof. Turner to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, under 

 the date of Jan. 30, 1882, and reprinted in the '■ Journal of 

 Anatomy and Physiology ' for April ] 882, p. 458 et seq. It 



