INDEX. 
Martens, F., 262 
Martha’s Vineyard, bones of whales at, 20 
whales killed at, 70 
Martinique, whales about, 30 
Maryland, Assateague beach, whales driven on shore 
at, 76 
Massachusetts, bones of whales found at Martha’s 
Vineyard, 20 
cetaceans of, 58 
finback whale at Gloucester, 63 
whales at Cape Cod, 71, 72, 82 
at Duxbury, 72 
at Gloucester, 64 
at Nantucket, 21 
at Plymouth, 65 
Young’s note on whales at Cape Cod, 
72 
Massachusetts Historical Society, collections of, ref- 
erences to whale fishery in, 72 
Mather, Richard, voyage to New England in 1635, 
23 
Measurements, system of, 4 
Megaptera, 82, 91, 211 
American specimens of, 212 
Flower’s remarks on species of, 63 
length of specimens of, at Norwegian 
whaling stations, 213 
Van Beneden on the geographical distri- 
bution of, 57 
Megaptera from Greenland in European museums, 55 
Megaptera americana, 48, 60, 241 
Megaptera bellicosa, 60, 97, 102, 103, 232, 289, 241, 242 
note on, by J. E. Gray, 48 
remarks on the original descrip- 
of, 97 
type-skeleton of, 97, 212, 2838, 
236, 240, 242 
measurements 
of the, 100 
notes on the, 101 
Megaptera boops, 63 
Megaptera brasiliensis, 103 
note on, 102 
Megaptera kuzira, 102, 276 
Megaptera lalandii, 102 
Megaptera longimana, 48, 52, 55, 60, 92, 98, 99, 102, 
241, 242, 276 
type-specimen of, 236 
Megaptera nodosa, 211, 241, 270, 272, 276, 297 
abdominal ridges, 224 
American specimens of, in Euro- 
pean museums, 308 
at Bermuda, large specimens of, 
214 
caudal peduncle, 230 
chevrons, 235 
color, 216, 218, 221 
at Snook’s Arm Station, 
Newfoundland, 218 
Cocks’s notes on, 216 
in Greenland specimens, 
220 
327 
Megaptera nodosa, color in Iceland specimens, 220 
Rawitz’s notes on, 217 
Rawitz’s theory of, 221 
Sars’s notes on, 217 
Struthers’s notes on, 217 
dermal tubercles, 225 
diagnosis of, 298 
dorsal fin, 226 
comparison of, in 
American and Euro- 
pean specimens, 228 
Sars’s description of, 
227 
eye, 230 
flukes, 280 
length of specimens of, at Balena 
Station, Newfoundland, 213 
length of specimens of, at Snook’s 
Arm, Newfoundland, 212 
measurements of, 223 
measurements of Newfoundland 
specimens of, 222 
pectoral fins, 228 
length of, 229 
shape of, 228 
phalanges, 238 
radius and ulna, 2386 
measurements of, 
238 
ribs, 240 
scapula, 285, 237 
measurements of, 235 
proportions of, 236 
size, 212 
skeleton, 2352 
measurements of, 284 
skull, 233 
measurements of, 233 
statistics of length of, 216 
sternum, 239, 240 
summary of discussion of, 240 
vertebrae, 234 
vertebral formula, 232 
whalebone, 230 
Megaptera osphyia, 48, 82, 91, 98, 102, 252, 289, 241, 
285 
characters of, 241 
notes on, 94 
notes on the original description 
of, 92 
type-skeleton of, measurements 
of, 94, 96 
notes on, 95 
type-specimen of, 4, 91, 212, 233, 
2386, 241 
Megaptera versabilis, 48, 78, 102, 270 
characters of, 
Scammon, 271 
color of, notes by Scammon 
on, 272 
comparison of, with Megaptera 
nodosa, 272 
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