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Scotran Jnstitnte of <dence. 



SESSION OF 1907-1908 



ON A SKELETON OF A WHALE IN THE PROVINCIAL MUSEUM, 

 HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA; WITH NOTES ON THE FOSSIL 

 CETACEA OF NORTH AMERICA. BY GEORGE H. PER- 

 KINS, PH. D., Professor of Geology, University of Ver- 

 mont, State Geologist of Vermont, Burlington, Vt. 



(Received for publication 29th July, 1908.) 



Skeleton c-f a Whale from Jacquet River, New Brunswick. 



Jn the- Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of 

 Science, vol. ii., pp. 400-404, 1873, Dr. J. Bernard Gilpin pub- 

 lished " Observations on some Fossil Bones found in New 

 Brunswick.' 7 In course of a study of the fossil cetacea of 

 North America, the attention of the author was directed to the 

 above article, and learning that the bones described by Dr. 

 Gilpin were preserved in the Provincial Museum of Nova 

 Scotia, at Halifax, enquiries concerning them wene sent to Mr. 

 Hiarry Piers, the curator, and by his courtesy the specimens 

 were sent from Halifax in order that they might be carefully 

 studied and compared with the skeleton of the Vermont speci- 

 men with which the Canadian bones had been considered 

 identical. 



The account written by Dr. Gilpin is brief and without 

 illustration, and he had no similar bones with which he could 



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