INDEX. 
Tobago Id., whale fishery at, 61 
Torquemada’s account of Viscaino’s voyages to Lower 
California, 32 
Townsend, Chas. H., 275, 290, 294 
on California gray whale, 
Rhachianectes glaucus, 65 
Trumpo, 28 
Tunnolik, 58, 146, 189 
Turner, Sir Wm., 152 
figure of Balcenoptera acuto-ros- 
trata by, 196 
on length of Longniddry whale, 
152, 155 
Turton’s translation of Linnzeus’s Systema Nature, 
American species of whales mentioned in, 41 
Types of Cope’s and Scammon’s species, 3 
Ulloa, Francis, on whales in the Gulf of California, 
32 
Unalaska, finback whales at, 68 
United States Fish Commission, 193 
reports and bulletins 
of, 63, 65 
Vaagehval, 51, 201 
Van Beneden, P.-J., 3, 151, 152 
cetological writings of, 54 
comments on whales of west 
coast of North America, 57 
comparison of skeletons of 
humpback whales, 54 
natural history of cetaceans of 
seas of Europe, 54 : 
on Balceenoptera davidsoni, 296 
on Balcenoptera sulfwreus, 286 
on Balcenoptera velifera, 284 
on geographical distribution of 
Baleena and Megaptera, 57 
on geographical distribution of 
finbacks, 57 
on geographical distribution of 
right whales, 55 
on right whales on Atlantic coast 
of United States, 57 
on the affinities of Rhachian- 
ectes, 292 
remarks on Balena cisarctica, 
56 
Balena cisarctica 
and biscayensis, 
55, 268, 264 
right whale taken 
in Charleston 
harbor, 57 
remarks on size of Megaptera, 
214 
summary of osteological charac- 
ters of Balceenoptera musculus, 
181 
Van Beneden, P.-J., and Gervais, P., osteography of 
cetacea, 55 
del 
Van Beneden, P.-J., and Gervais, P., remarks re- 
garding Me- 
gaptera os- 
phyia and 
bodps, 243 
Van Breda, J. G. S., 151 
Van der Donck, A., description of the New Nether- 
lands, 23, 26 
note on whale fishery in Dela- 
ware Bay, 26 
Variation, individual, 3 
Verrill, A. E., statement regarding whales at Ber- 
muda, 30 
Vinvisch, 41 
Viscaino’s note on whales at Monterey, California, 33 
Viscaino’s voyages along coast of Lower California, 32 
Viscaino’s and Aguilar’s voyage in 1603, 32 
Ward, F. A., 4 
Washington, whales off Cape Flattery, 67 
whales off Quillihute River, 67 
Watson, John F., annals of Philadelphia, 76 
Waymouth, description of Indians’ manner of killing 
whales, 20 
Weeden, Wm. B., on colonial whale fishery of New 
England, 75 
West Coast whales, specimens of, 269 
West Indies, Du Tetre’s remarks on whales at the, 31 
humpback-whale fishery in the, 61 
whales of the, 30 
Whalebone whales, American specimens of, in Euro- 
pean museums, 308 
first authentic notice of, on east 
coast of North America, 14 
nomenclature of the, 1 
Whale fishery, American, Douglass’s remarks on the, 
qa 
Felt’s notes on the, 72 
history of the, 68 
Lanman on the, 76 
Basque, 60 
on Newfoundland banks, 60 
colonial, of Long Island, New York, 73 
of New England, 75 
of New York, 73, 74 
records of the, 68 
Douglass’s remarks on the American, 
71 
Lindeman on the, 59 
North Pacific gray whale, 59 
North Pacific humpback whale, 59 
North Pacific right whale, 59 
of Bermuda, 27-29 
of Carolina, 44 
of Davis Strait, 70 
of Delaware Bay, 24, 26, 76 
of Gulf of St. Lawrence, 16, 59, 70, 72 
of Maine, 64, 65 
of New England, 44 
of Newfoundland, 2, 70 
of New France, Champlain’s descrip- 
tion of, 17 
