1V ADVERTISEMENT. 
by Cope and Scammon; also numerous representations of the different individuals 
of the Common Finback and the Sulphurbottom, from photographs taken by the 
author at the Newfoundland whaling stations. The latter are of special value for 
the study of individual variation in these huge animals. 
In accordance with the rule of the Institution this paper has been referred to 
a committee consisting of Doctor Theodore Gill, Associate in Zodlogy, United 
States National Museum, Doctor J. A. Allen, Curator of Mammalogy in the 
American Museum of Natural History, New York, and Doctor Leonhard Stejneger, 
Curator in the Department of Biology, United States National Museum. 
S. P. LANGLEY, 
SECRETARY. 
Smithsonian Institution, 
Washington, D.C., June, 1904. 
