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charged from the mammary gland of a female when cut up, but 

 has never witnessed the young in the act of suckling. Jackson, 

 Boston Journ. N. H. v. 141. He figures the stomach as having 

 three cavities. Jackson, I. c. t. 14. 



Clusius erroneously describes the blowers as placed on the head 

 near the back, and Artedi and Linnaeus adopt this error in their 

 character of Physeter macrocephalus. Anderson (Iceland, ii. 186. 

 t. 4) gives a figure of a whale with a truncated head, much re- 

 sembling the old figures of the Sperm Whale, with the blower on 

 the hinder part of the head, like a Physeter. Bonnaterre esta- 

 blished on this figure his Physeter cylindrus ; and Lacepede forms 

 a genus for it, which he calls Physalus. The Dutch engraving 

 of the animal described by Clusius shows this to have been a 

 mistake. 



The bunch and hump referred to by Beale and the other whalers, 

 appear first to have been described by T. Hasaeus of Bremen, in 

 1 /23, in a dissertation on the f Leviathan of Job and the Whale 

 of Jonas ; ' on " a specimen 70 feet long, with a very large head, 

 the lower jaw 16 feet long, with 52 pointed teeth, with a boss on 

 the back, and another near the tail, which resembles a fin." Cu- 

 vier, after quoting this very accurate description, observes, "Mais 

 d'apres Pobservation fait sur divers dauphins, cette disposition 

 que personne n'a revue pourroit avoir ete accidentelle, et alors 

 cet animal n'auroit differe en rien du Cachalot vulgaire." Oss. 

 Foss. v. 331. Indeed Cuvier's mind appears to have been made 

 up that the Sperm Whale had no hump in the place of the dorsal 

 fin, and he wrongly accuses Bonnaterre of having added a tubercle 

 in his copy of Anderson's figure, which is not in the original 

 (Oss. Foss. 332). Anderson, in the description of this animal, 

 says that it has a prominence four feet long and a foot and a 

 half high near its tail, as in his figure. But the fact was that 

 Cuvier erroneously combined the Sperm Whale and the Black-fish 

 (Physeter) together; and he could not otherwise reconcile how 

 some authors, as Hasaeus, Anderson and Pennant, described the 

 Sperm Whale with a hump ; while Sibbald describes the Physeter, 

 which Cuvier erroneously considered the same animal, with a dorsal 

 fin, overlooking at the same time the great difference in the form 

 of the head, and in the position of the blower of these two very 

 dissimilar genera. Oss. Foss. 338. 



Mr. Bell observes, " After careful examination of the various 

 accounts which have from time to time been given of whales be- 

 longing to this family, called Spermaceti Whales, I have found it 

 necessary to adopt an opinion in some measure at variance with 

 those of most previous writers, with regard to the genera and 

 species to which all those accounts and details are to be referred. 

 The conclusion to which I have been led is, first, that the High- 



