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Naturalists' Society, thought the fact of the two 

 individuals being so nearly of the same age might 

 seem to indicate that the Grampus occasionally 

 gives birth to two young ones. The post mortem 

 of the second Grampus may be worth repeating 

 in Mr. Southwell's words : 



" The second example Mr. Patterson saw on the 

 Fishwharf at Yarmouth on the 19th November, 

 and purchased it for the Norwich Museum, where 

 it arrived on the 20th, when I had an opportunity 

 of examining it. Owing to the skin being con- 

 siderably abrased by rough usage, it was not in 

 a condition to make a perfect specimen for the 

 Museum collection ; I therefore telegraphed to 

 Mr. (now Dr.) S. F. Harmer at the University 

 Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, and at his request 

 sent it to that institution, after having made some 

 careful measurements, which are worth recording, 

 by way of comparison with those of the adult. 



" The animal was a female, and had probably 

 never taken solid food, no trace of which, as I 

 was informed by Mr. Harmer, was to be found 

 in the stomach or intestines. The teeth had not 

 been cut, but could be plainly felt in the upper 

 jaw. Mr. Harmer tells me there were other in- 



