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full descriptions and useful illustrations of many of these 

 appliances for oceanographical investigation in Bulletin No. 

 162, publisLed from Monaco in 1910. 



All the Prince's successive voyages were very fruitful of 

 scientific results, and biology owes the knowledge of many 

 new deep-sea Atlantic animals to the special memoirs issued 

 from the Monaco Press. But none of these have been more 

 novel, and almost sensational, than the results of the Prince's 

 whale -fishing expeditions in the Mediterranean and the 

 Atlantic, when he obtained the more or less perfect remains 

 of various new and, in some cases, gigantic cuttle-fishes (such 

 as Lepidoteuthis grimaldii and Cucioteuthis unguiculata) from 

 the stomachs of the toothed sperm-whales, or " cachalot." 

 These huge and previously unknown " squids," or cuttle-fish, 

 seem to be the principal, if not the sole, food of. these toothed 

 whales. 



In the various reports of the expeditions from about 1896 

 onwards we have interesting accounts of Homeric fights 

 with these monsters of the sea, of which the following 

 sentences — in part quotations from a letter of the Prince to 

 Mr. J. Y. Buchanan, who had accompanied him on many of 

 his expeditions — may be taken as a sample. Mr. Buchanan 

 prefaces 1 the letter by telling us that in 1895, while they were 

 pursuing deep-sea research near the Azores, a native crew in 

 their neighbourhood kiUed a sperm-whale which died under 

 the bottom of the Prince's yacht, having charged the ship in 

 its death-agony as its apparent enemy. On floating up at 

 the other side it emitted from its widely- opened mouth the 

 remains of its last meal, which proved to be fragments of 

 gigantic cuttle-fishes hitherto unknown to science. These 

 were in such good condition that they could be examined 

 zoologically, and were afterwards described and figured in 

 communications to the Paris Academy of Sciences. As soon 

 as the yacht returned after this experience from the Azores, 

 the Prince equipped her for the whale fishery, and engaged 



1 Accounts Rendered, Cambridge University Press, 1919, p. 259. 



