158 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 
Mammalia, p. 17), and Walker’s Kinkell animal, are under- 
stood to be one and the same. 
_ In June 1752 a large whale was stranded near Eyemouth 
in Berwickshire, which was probably of this species (see 
Scoresby’s “ Arctic Regions,” vol. i1.); and Professor Turner 
informs me he has the skull of a specimen obtained at 
Bervie, Kincardineshire, in October 1889. 
BALZANOPTERA BOREALIS Zess. RUDOLPHI'S RORQUAL. 
In September 1872 a whale, which Sir William Turner has 
since shown to have been an example of Rudolphi’s Rorqual, 
was captured at Snab, Kinneil, about a mile from Bo’ness, on 
the Firth of Forth, by some men who, seeing it floundering in 
shallow water, proceeded to the spot, and, having fastened a 
rope round its tail, hauled it nearer the shore, and then 
killed it. The Scotsman of 26th September contained a 
notice of the occurrence. The length of the animal from the 
tip of the beak to the end of the tail was about 37 feet, 
and its girth about 15 feet. The carcase, after being stripped 
of the blubber, was secured by Professor Turner, who, in 
order to thoroughly clean the bones and free them from the 
oil they contained, had them buried in the Botanic Garden 
in a mixture of earth and leaves, in which they were allowed 
to lie till the summer of 1881. The skeleton was then 
prepared for the Anatomical Museum of the University, 
where it is now preserved. Although captured in 1872, it 
was not till the skeleton had been carefully examined ten 
years later that Professor Turner became satisfied “that the 
animal was the Cetacean named by zoologists Balcenoptera 
borealis or laticeps”—see his paper read to the Royal Society 
of Edinburgh, 20th February 1882, and printed in the Journal 
of Anatomy and Physiology, vol. xvi, p. 471, in which he 
minutely describes the specimen. This is the first properly 
authenticated example of the species taken on the British 
coasts, and is an addition to Alston’s list of Scottish 
Mammalia. 
