60 THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 
figures of specimens of different species examined by the author, measurements, 
descriptions, ete. These relate chiefly to the species of the North Pacific. The 
figures of the Right whale and Gray whale are interesting for comparison with 
those of Scammon, though both are inaccurate to a certain degree. 
In 1871 P. Fischer published some brief notes on the Basque whale (Lalena 
biscayensis) in which he refers to &. césarctica and to the whale fishery of the 
Basques on the Newfoundland banks, which he asserts they reached in 1372." 
Fischer’s article on Documents relating to the History of the Basque Whale, 
1871,? contains further references to the Basque whale fishery in the Gulf of St. 
Lawrence, and other matters concerning Right whales in the North Atlantic. 
Prof. A. W. Malm published in 1871 an annotated list of specimens of ceta- 
ceans in Swedish museums,’ in which he mentioned a specimen of a Humpback 
from Greenland, and one from St. Bartholomew Id., West Indies. The former 
he places under Megaptera longimana and for the latter he accepts the name JZ. 
americana from Gray, with a query. He gives number of vertebrae, measurements, 
and other data. The West Indian specimen is especially interesting, as Cope got 
the type-specimen of his JZ. dellicosa from the same island and the same collector. 
Mr. Henry Reeks published a series of articles on the zodlogy of Newfound- 
land in the Zodlogist in 1871, among which is one on cetaceans. An endeavor 
was made by Dr. Theo. Gill, at Mr. Reeks’s request, to connect, the common names 
current in the island for various species with scientific names, but on account of the 
vagueness of the information furnished this was not particularly successful. 
Dr. Thos. Dwight published in 1872 a brief description of a Common Finback 
[ Balenoptera physalus (1..) | which stranded at Point Shirley, Boston Harbor, Nov. 
25, 1871.5 He gives measurements, color-description, and other data, In the same 
year he published a detailed description of the skeleton of a Common Finback cap- 
tured off Gloucester, Mass., in Oct., 1871. He gives measurements and five figures 
of the exterior, full descriptions and measurements of the skull, vertebree and other 
bones, and numerous figures of different parts of the skeleton, and discusses the 
relationships of the specimen and its probable specific identity. The paper con- 
tains more detailed information and more and better figures than any other paper 
on Balenoptera hitherto published in America. 
In 1874 a brief note to the following effect appeared in the Proceedings of 
the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences: 
1 FiscHer, P., Sur la Baleine des Basques (Balena biscayensis). Comp. Rend., 72, 1871, p. 298. 
2 FiscHer, P., Documents pour servir 41’Histoire de la Baleine des Basques (Aa/ena biscayensis). 
Ann. de Sci. nat., 1871, Art. 3, pp. 1-20. 
* Mawm, A. W., Hvaldjur 1 Sveriges Museer, Ar 1869. K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl., 9, 
No. 2, 1871, pp. 1-104, pls. 1-6. 
* Reeks, H., Notes on the Zodlogy of Newfoundland. Zodlogist (2), 6, 1871, pp. 2550-2553. 
° Dwicut, THos., jr., Description of the Whale (Balenoptera musculus) that came ashore in 
Boston Harbor, Nov. 25, 1871. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 15, pp. 26-27. 
° Dwicut, THos., jr., Description of the Whale ( Belenoptera musculus Auct.) in the possession 
of the [Boston] Society [of Natural History]: with remarks on the classification of Fin Whales. 
Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 2, pt. 2, 1872, pp. 203-239, pls. 6-7. 
