INDEX. 



825 



Fischer, P., opinion regarding species of Balcena, 



264, 266 



views on extension of Basque whale fish- 

 ery, 266 

 Florida, River of the Dolphins, 27 



whales in, 27 



Flower, Sir Wm. H., description of osteological char- 

 acters of Balcenoptera physa- 

 lus, 131 



list of cetacea in British Mu- 

 seum, 62 



on species of Balcena, 63 

 on species of Megaptera, 63, 



277 

 opinion of, regarding Balcena 



cisarctica, 264 

 Forstrand, Dr., 152 

 Fortin, Pierre, reports on fisheries of Gulf of St. 



Lawrence, 54 



Fox, Luke, voyage of, to Hudson Bay, 13 

 Foyn, Svend, 162 



Foyn's Finmark station, whales taken at, 159 

 Freeman's history of Cape Cod, 72 

 Frobisher Bay, whales in, 7 

 Frobisher. Martin, third voyage of, to Davis Strait, 7 



Gali's voyage in 1584, 32 



Gasco, F. , description of the ribs of Bakena glacialis, 



257 

 formula for Taranto skeleton of Balcena 



i/lariiiliis. 260 

 remarks on Bahena cisarctica and biscay- 



ensis, 263 



Gaspe, Canada, whales at, 19, 20 

 Gelcich, Eugen, article on Duro's Disquisiciones 



Nauticas, 15 

 Geographical distribution of cetaceans, 48, 59 



Eschricht's es- 

 say on, 53 

 Geographical distribution of finbacks, Van Beneden's 



paper on, 57 

 Geographical distribution of right whales, Van Bene- 



den on, 55 

 Gervais, H. P., on vertebral formula of Balcenoptera 



musculus, 182 



( Irrvais, P. See Van Beneden and Gervais 

 (icsni-r, t'nnnul, 35 

 Gibar, 19, 20 

 Gibbar, 40, 45 

 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, voyage of, to Newfoundland 



in 1583, 16 

 Gmelin's edition of Linna?us's Systema Nature, 



American species of whales mentioned in, 41 

 Goes, A. , 236 



specimen of Megaptera bellicosa obtained 



by, 97 

 Goode, G. Brown, on whales in American waters, 



62 



Gosnold's voyage to Massachusetts in 1602. 20 

 Grace of Bristoll, voyage of, to the Bay of St. Law- 

 rence, 16 



Grampus, 44, 75 



Grand Banks, whales on the, 65 



Grand Bay, Newfoundland, 43 



location of, 12 



Grand Bay whale, 10, 11, 12, 20, 266 

 Grand Bayaco Baleac, 266 

 Gray, J. E., classification of whales, 47 



criticisms of Van Beneden's map of dis- 

 tribution of Balcena, 55, 56 

 note on Megaptera bellicosa, 48 

 on Balcenoptera acuto-rostrata from 



Greenland, 209 



on geographical distribution of cetacea, 48 

 supplement to catalogue of seals and 



whales in British Museum, 47 

 systematic treatises of, on cetacea, 47 

 Grayback, 62, 287 

 Gray whale, 60, 62, 65, 66, 80 



geographical distribution of, 59 

 off California coast, 66 

 Gray-whale fishery, 59, 61 

 Greenland, Balcenoptera musculus in, 189 



Egede's account of whales of, 39 

 measurements of Balcenoptera physalus 



from, 147 

 representative of Balcenoptera physalus 



in, 146 

 specimens of Balcenoptera acuto-rostrata 



from, 206 

 whales of, 6, 7 



Greenland Balcenoptera acuto-rostrata, Gray's re- 

 marks on, 209 



Greenland cetacea, Robert Brown on, 61 

 Greenland humpback, 49, 51, 229 

 color -of, 220 

 dorsal fin of, 226 

 length of, 215 

 Greenland right whale, 5, 10, 34, 39, 40, 43, 45, 47, 



266, 297 



Greenland whale, Scoresby's note on a, 189 

 Greenland whales mentioned in Fabricius's Fauna 



Groenlandica. 42 

 in Muller's Prodro- 



mus, 42 



Greenman, Dr., 4 

 Grenada Ids., fishery for humpback whales at the, 



61 

 Guldberg, G. A., 152 



on length of Balcenoptera musculus, 

 150, 151 



britannica, 266 

 Hallas. Sophus, data regarding color of Iceland sul- 



phurbottom, 169 



description of color of Iceland hump- 

 back, 220 

 measurements of sulphurbottom 



taken at Iceland, 161 

 on length of sulphurbottom in Ice- 

 land, 150 

 Harvey, A. W., 4 



