138 GREAT NORTHERN RORQUAL. 



1, 63 feet, conveyed into Brighton in 1830. London's Mar 



gazine, iv. 163. 

 1, 57 feet, at Rochefort, in 1827 ; Souty, in Lesson, 345. 



1, 52 feet, at Eyemouth, Berwickshire, 1752. 



2, 46 feet; one at Burntisland, 1690, Sibbald; ditto, 1761, 



Dr. Walker, recorded by Dr. Neil. 



1, 43 feet, near Alloa, Frith of Forth, 1808. Dr. Neil. 

 Besides various others whose dimensions are not given, or 

 smaller than the above, on the coast of Ireland, in the Western 

 Isles, the Orkneys, in the Thames, the coast of Holland, &c. 



Many of the occurrences above alluded to were 

 of great moment, in as much as they afforded an 

 opportunity which men of zeal and science im- 

 proved, in the more particular examination of the 

 structure of the order, and thereby improved our 

 acquaintance with them : they thus became land- 

 marks in the acquisition of knowledge, at which 

 those who laboured acquired for themselves a well 

 merited and substantial praise. 



In no instance has this zeal been more conspi- 

 cuous, than as it was excited by No. 5 in the 

 above list, found in the neighbourhood of North 

 Berwick in 1831. It was immediately purchased by 

 the present proprietors, Dr. Knox and his brother, 

 Mr. Frederick Knox, the latter of whom superin- 

 tended the process of flensing, and for more than 

 three years with praiseworthy assiduity, carried 

 on the preparation of the skeleton, and of some 

 of the soft parts, which were exhibited in 1835, in 

 Edinburgh and Glasgow, to the admiration of thou- 

 sands. To the former of these gentlemen, especially, 

 men of science will look for some interesting addi- 



