THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. ai) 
which he called £. davidsoni, from a specimen obtained in Admiralty Inlet, 
Puget Sound.’ He afterwards figured this species in his Marine Mammals. 
The larger work already mentioned —Scammon’s Marine Mammals — ap- 
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 whale 
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 
not all of them are above criticism in point of accuracy. An appendix to the 
work was prepared by Mr. Wm. H. Dall, in which the North Pacific species 
of Cope, Scammon, and other writers are arranged systematically, and elucidated 
by notes, measurements, ete. 
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 Humpback fishery, etc. Relative to 
the North Pacific fisheries, Lindeman quoted a long letter from M. E. Pechuel, 
who accompanied the New Bedford whaler Massachusetts to Bering Sea in 1865. 
This letter contains much valuable information regarding the Right whale of the 
North Pacific. Lindeman also published a communication from Captain Seabury of 
New Bedford on the principal whaling stations of the world, containing numerous 
facts relative to the geographical distribution of the Right whales, Humpbacks, 
and Gray whales. Coming from persons directly concerned in the whale fishery, 
these two communications are of special importance. Dr. Lindeman’s article as 
a whole contains an immense amount of valuable information relative to the 
whale fishery. (See also p. 61.) 
The reports of the fisheries branch of the Canadian Department of Marine 
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, Das Ausland.’ 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 Balenoptera. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 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 American Whale-Fishery. San Fran- 
cisco, 1874. 4°. 
* LinpEMAN, M., Die Arktische Fischerei der Deutschen Seestidte, 1620-1868. Petermann’s 
Geog. Mitthetl. LErgdadnzungsheft, No. 26, 1869, pp. 1-118, pls. 1-2. 
“The notices are in the following volames: 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 1572, appendix, do., p. 16; Oth Report for 1873, appendix, do., p. 18; Sth Report for 1875, 
Supplement 4, Rept. Comr. Fisheries, p. 49; oth Report for 1876, Supplement 4, Rept. Comr. Fisheries, 
p. 65; zoth Report for 1877, Supplement 5, Rept. Comr. Fisheries, p. 20; 11th Report for 1878, Sup- 
plement 4, Rept. Comr. Fisheries, p. 49; 1st Annual Rept. Dept. Fisheries for 1884, p. 171. 
* PECHUEL-LoEscHE, M. E., Wale und Walfang. Das Ausland, 44, 1871, Nos. 42-50. 
