CONTENTS. 



P4GB 



MEMOIR OF LACEPEDE 17 



INTRODUCTION S3 



Comparative Anatomy of the Cetacea. Plate I. . 43 



First Genus. BALDEN A . . . . . . 7o 



The Greenland Whale. 



Balcena Mysticetus. Plate II 7<> 



Food of the Whale. Plate III 87 



Northern Whale Fishery 93 



Wliale breaching, or leaping out of the water. Plate IV. 11 3 



Whale upsetting a boat. Plate IV*. . . . 115 

 Whale of the Southern Seas. 



Balana Australia 122 



Second Genus RORQUALUS 125 



Great Northern Rorqual. 



Rorqualus Borealis. Plate V 1 25 



Skeleton of the Great Northern Rorqual. Plate VI. 139 

 The Lesser Rorqual. 



Rorqualus Restrains. Plate VII. . . . 142 

 Rorqual of the Southern Seas. 



Rorqualus Australia . . . . 146 



Fossile Rorquals, &c. 150 



Third Genus CACHALOT 154 



The Spermaceti Wliale from Frith of Forth. PI. VIII. 1 64 



The Spermaceti Whale of Southern Ocean. Plate IX. 1 58 



The South Sea Fishery 169 



Dying Struggles of the Spermaceti Wliale. Plate X. 171 



The HBTBRODONS (with few and heterogeneous teeth) 181 



