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Royal Society, who accompanied Captain Cook in his 

 first voyage to the South Seas, and reported in his Jour- 

 nal the picking up of the remains of one of the giant 

 cuttle-fish 275 



Extracts from An Account of Ambergrise, by Dr 

 Schwediawer. 



Ambergrise is found floating on the surface of the 

 sea, and stranded on the sea shore. It is also found in 

 the intestinal canal of the sperm whale, in lumps 

 sometimes weighing over one hundred pounds. 



The best ambergrise producers are sickly and 

 emaciated whales. The ambergrise is a by-product 

 of their disease which has its seat in the caecum and is 

 probably allied to if not identic with Appendicitis . 276 



Most writers accepted the myth that the cachalot 

 feeds on birds, because "beaks" had been found in 

 their stomachs by the fishermen, and feathers were 

 added by the writers. The "beaks" turned out not to 

 be mandibles, but the claws or talons of an animal, 

 which then and to this day, has not been obtained except 

 from the stomach of the cachalot. 



Evidence of the colossal size of these cephalopods 

 was furnished by the killing of a sperm whale which 

 rendered one of its arms or tentacles, which, though not 

 complete, measured twenty-seven feet in length . . 277 



No. 19. THE OCEANOGRAPHICAL MUSEUM AT MONACO (illus- 

 trated). [From Nature, November 3, 1910, Vol. 

 LXXXV. pp. 7-11] 278 



The inauguration of the Museum took place on the 

 29th March, 1910, in the presence of representatives of 

 nearly all the principal nations of Europe . . . 278 



The Museum and the vessels attached to it with 

 their staffs are part of the Institut Ocdanographique , 

 Fondation Albert l er Prince de Monaco, the seat of 

 which is in Paris . . . . . . .278 



In the Hydrographic Department a historic feature 

 is the Current Chart of the North Atlantic, revealed by 

 floats despatched from the schooner "Hirondelle." 

 These showed that the Sargasso Sea is a great vortex, 

 the waters of which have a circular and downward 

 motion. It coincides with the great North Atlantic 

 "Downthrow" shown on the chart, p. 106. 



The unrivalled collection of skeletons of Cetaceans 



