15G ON A SKELETON OF A WHALE IN THE 



There are ten ribs on the right side and iiiiiie on the left. 

 Some of them are considerably broken, but others are nearly 

 perfect. The longest in this skeleton is the fifth, which fr,om 

 vertebra to sternum, is thirty-five inches on the outside curve. 

 This specimen is more perfect than any other in its vertebric 

 and scapulas. 



V. This is the Halifax specimen, which is described in 

 the first part of this paper. 



VI. In American Journal of Science, 3rd series, vol. xxv., 

 p. 200, Dr. Dawson writes: " Bones of large whales 

 are not of infrequent occurrence in the lower St. Lawrence. 

 The bones found on lower and therefore modern terraces are 

 usually in a good state of preservation, and have a very recent 

 appearance." After mentioning several specimens of " Beluga, 7 ' 

 all of which are discussed in these pages, Dr. Dawson mentions 

 particularly several large bones found in a gravel pit thirty 

 feet below the surface. 



In Canadian Ice Age, p. 268, Dr. Dawson refers to these 

 brtnes as follows: " M egaptera longimana, Gray. Portions of 

 a skeleton of this species were found in 1882 in a ballast pit of 

 the Canadian Pacific Railroad, three miles north of Smith's 

 Falls, Ontario, 81 miles north of the St. Lawrence River. 

 They were imbedded in gravel along with shells of Tellina 

 grcenlandica, apparently on a beach of the Pleistocene period, at 

 an elevation of 4-40 feet above the sea, wliich corresponds nearly 

 with one of the principal sea-coast terraces on the Montreal 

 mountain and other parts of the St. Lawrence valley." 



These bones, now in the Redpath Museum, consist of a dor- 

 sal, a lumbar vertebra, part of the neural arch of another, and 

 a part of a rib. The centrum of the lumbar is ten inches in 

 diameter and from tip to tip of the transverse processes it is 

 thirty inches. 



