INDEX. 325 
Fischer, P., opinion regarding species of Balcena, 
264, 266 
views on extension of Basque whale fish- 
ery, 266 
Florida, River of the Dolphins, 27 
whales in, 27 
Flower, Sir Wm. H., description of osteological char- 
acters of Balenoptera physa- 
lus, 131 
list of cetacea in 
seum, 62 
on species of Balcena, 63 
on species of Megaptera, 63, 
277 
opinion of, regarding Balcena 
cisarctica, 264 
British Mu- 
Forstrand, Dr., 152 
Fortin, Pierre, reports on fisheries of Gulf of St. 
Lawrence, 54 
Fox, Luke, voyage of, to Hudson Bay, 13 
Foyn, Svend, 162 
Foyn’s Finmark station, whales taken at, 159 
Freeman's history of Cape Cod, 72 
Frobisher Bay, whales in, 7 
Frobisher, Martin, third voyage of, to Davis Strait, 7 
Gali’s voyage in 1584, 32 
Gasco, F., description of the ribs of Balcena glacialis, 
257 
formula for Taranto skeleton of Balcena 
glacialis, 260 
remarks on Balena cisarctica and biscay- 
ensis, 263 
Gaspe, Canada, whales at, 19, 20 
Gelcich, Eugen, article on Duro’s Disquisiciones 
Nauticas, 15 
Geographical distribution of cetaceans, 48, 59 
Eschricht’s es- 
say on, 53 
Geographical distribution of finbacks, Van Beneden’s 
paper on, 57 
Geographical distribution of right whales, Van Bene- 
den on, 55 
Gervais, H. P., on vertebral formula of Balceenoptera 
museulus, 182 
Gervais, P. See Van Beneden and Gervais 
Gesner, Conrad, 35 
Gibar, 19, 20 
Gibbar, 40, 45 
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, voyage of, to Newfoundland 
in 1583, 16 
Gmelin’s edition of Linneus’s Systema Naturee, 
American species of whales mentioned in, 41 
Goés, A., 286 
specimen of Megaptera bellicosa obtained 
by, 97 
Goode, G. Brown, on whales in American waters, 
62 
Gosnold’s voyage to Massachusetts in 1602, 20 
Grace of Bristoll, voyage of, to the Bay of St. Law- 
rence, 16 
Grampus, 44, 75 
Grand Banks, whales on the, 65 
Grand Bay, Newfoundland, 43 
location of, 12 
Grand Bay whale, 10, 11, 12, 20, 266 
Grand Bayaco Baleac, 266 
Gray, J. E., classification of whales, 47 
criticisms of Van Beneden’s map of dis- 
tribution of Balcena, 55, 56 
note on Megaptera bellicosa, 48 
on Balenoptera acuto-rostrata 
Greenland, 209 
on geographical distribution of cetacea, 48 
supplement to catalogue of seals and 
whales in British Museum, 47 
systematic treatises of, on cetacea, 47 
Grayback, 62, 287 
Gray whale, 60, 62, 65, 66, 80 
geographical distribution of, 59 
off California coast, 66 
Gray-whale fishery, 59, 61 
Greenland, Balcenoptera musculus in, 189 
Egede’s account of whales of, 39 
measurements of Balceenoptera physalus 
from, 147 
representative of Balcenoptera physalus 
in, 146 
specimens of Balcenoptera acuto-rostrata 
from, 206 
whales of, 6, 7 
Greenland Balenoptera acuto-rostrata, Gray's re- 
marks on, 209 
Greenland cetacea, Robert Brown on, 61 
Greenland humpback, 49, 51, 229 
color of, 220 
dorsal fin of, 226 
length of, 215 
Greenland right whale, 5, 10, 34, 39, 40, 48, 45, 47, 
266, 297 
Greenland whale, Scoresby’s note on a, 189 
Greenland whales mentioned in Fabricius’s Fauna 
Groenlandica, 42 
in Miller’s Prodro- 
mus, 42 
from 
Greenman, Dr., 4 
Grenada Ids., fishery for humpback whales at the, 
61 
Guldberg, G. A., 152 
on length of Balenoptera musculus, 
150, 151 
Hatlibalena britannica, 266 
Hallas, Sophus, data regarding color of Iceland sul- 
phurbottom, 169 
description of color of Iceland hump- 
back, 220 
measurements of sulphurbottom 
taken at Iceland, 161 
on length of sulphurbottom in Ice- 
land, 150 
Harvey, A. W., 4 
