INDEX. 
Pacific Coast, whales of the, 31 
Pacific Ocean, humpback whale of, 273 
Jouan’s observations on the whales of 
the, 54 
Palliser, Hugh, 70 
Parkhurst, Anthony, letter to Hakluyt, 15 
Pechuel-Loesche, M. E.,on Baleenoptera sulfureus, 287 
on whale fishery, 59 
Penn, Wm., on whales in Delaware Bay, 26 
Pflockfisch, 40-42 
Physalide, 48 
Physalus antiquorum, 48 
Physalus brasiliensis, 102, 103 
Physalus latirostris, 178 
Pike-headed finner, 53 
Pike whale near Newfoundland, 66 
Pollack whale, 297 
diagnosis of, 300 
Porpoises, 44, 65 
Portland Society of Natural History, 1938 
Prentiss, D. W., 152 
Rawitz’s notes on color of humpback, 221 
Reeks, Henry, articles on zodlogy of Newfoundland, 
60 
Reinhardt, J., figure of skull of Balenoptera mus- 
culus by, 188 
on the sulphurbottom of Iceland, 
58 
opinions regarding Balena cisarctica 
and biscayensis, 264 
Rhachianectes, 80, 81, 105, 270 
diagnosis of, by Cope, 287 
Van Beneden’s opinion regarding the 
affinities of, 292 
Rhachianectes glaucus, 47, 56, 65, 80, 287 
American specimens of, in 
European museums, 309 
characters of, furnished by 
Scammon, 288 
figures of, by C. H. Townsend, 
289 
by Scammon, 288 
measurements of, 290 
original description of, 80 
pectorals, 292 
size, 289 
skeleton, 290 
skull, 291 
measurements of, 291 
specimens of, 290 
sternum, 292 
vertebree, 292 
vertebral formula, 291 
whalebone, 287, 289, 290 
Right whale, 24, 29, 37, 38, 43, 54, 60, 68 
Right whale captured in Charleston harbor, Van 
Beneden’s remarks on, 57 
Right whale of the Atlantic, 267 
Right whale of the North Atlantic, 244 
diagnosis of, 298 
329 
Right whale of the North Pacific, 59 
Right whale of the Northwestern Coast, 2 
Right-whale fishery of North Pacific, 59 
Right whales, 19 
Right whales, Atlantic, Holder’s memoir on, 62 
geographical distribution of, 55, 59 
on Atlantic coast, Van Beneden’s note 
on, 57 
opinions of cetologists regarding North 
Atlantic species of, 262 
Rios y Rial, Professor, 260 
Rissmiiller, L., 4 
Rochefort, C. de, natural history of the Antilles, 30, 
35 
on whales and other monsters of the 
sea, 30 
Rondelet, G., 34, 35 
Rorqual, 46, 49 
Rorqualus antareticus, 49 
Rorqualus boops, 49 
Rorqualus musculus, 49 
Rutgers College, scapula of Balcena glacialis in the 
museum of, 260 
, 
‘ 
Sagard-Theodat, G., observations of, on whales of 
Gulf of St. Lawrence, 19 
St. Lawrence, Gulf of, colonial whale fishery in, 72 
Duhamel’s references to bow- 
heads in, 44 
fisheries of, 54 
Lescarbot’s description of 
whale fishery in, 16 
Sagard-Theodat’s observations 
on whales in, 19 
voyage of the Grace of Bris- 
toll to, 16 
whale fishery in, 59, 60, 70 
whales in, 13, 66 
St. Lawrence River, Charlevoix on whales found in, 
36 
sulphurbottom of, 44 
whales in, 14, 36 
Santa Lucia Id., whale fishery at, 61 
Sarda, 12 
Sardaco Baleac, 266 
Sarde, 56, 267 
Sars, G. O., 152 
description of abdominal furrows of Ba- 
leenoptera physalus, 129 
color of Baleenoptera mus- 
culus, 161 
Baleenoptera phys- 
alus, 120 
dorsal fin of Balcenoptera 
musculus, 171 
dorsal fin of Norwegian 
humpback, 227 
pectoral fins of Balcenop- 
tera musculus, 173 
diagnosis of Baleenoptera acuto-rostrata- 
192 
Balenoptera musculus, 149 
