CONTENTS. 



PAGI 



MEMOIR OF LACKPEDE 17 



INTRODUCTION S3 



Comparative Anatomy of the Cetacea. Plate 1. . 43 



First Genus BALDEN A 7o 



The Greenland Whale. 



Balatna Mysticetus. Plate It 7 



Food of the Whale. Plate III 87 



Northern Whale Fishery 93 



Whale breaching, or leaping out of the water. Plate IV. 113 



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

 Whale of the Southern Seas. 



Bal<Kiia Australis . . . . . 122 



Second Genus RORQUAL us 125 



Great Northern Rorqual. 



Rorqualus Borealis. Plate V 125 



Skeleton of the Great Northern Rorqual. Plate VI. 139 

 The Lesser Rorqual. 



Rorqualus Rostratus. Plate VII. . . . 142 

 Rorqual of the Southern Seas. 



Rorqualus Australis 1 46 



Foasile Rorquals, &c. 150 



Third Genus CACHALOT 154 



The Spermaceti Whale from Frith of Forth. PI. VIII. 1 54 



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



The South Sea Fishery 169 



Dying Struggles of the Spermaceti Whale. Plate X. 171 



The HBTBRODONS (with few and heterogeneous teeth) 181 



