524 Prof. IFIntosh's Notes from the 



place between them. Gray, like Kaup, distinguished the 

 Again idaa from the Iguanidte chiefly on account of the mode 

 of insertion of their teeth in the jaws; but his then imperfect 

 knowledge of their geographical ranges prevented him from 

 perceiving the fact that the difference in their dental characters 

 coincided with their distribution over the globe. Evidently 

 this fact was first pointed out by Kaup. A. Gunther. 



LXXII. — Xotes from the Catty Marine Laboratory , St. An- 

 drews.—Ko. XXX. By Prof. M'lNTOSH, M.D., LL.D., 

 F.K.S., &c. 



[Plate* XII. & XII. a.] 



1. On the Stranding of an Adult Female Me$oplod<>n btdens, Sowerby, 



at St. Andrew-. 



2. ' in an Abnormal Plaice with a Precaudal Fin-frill on the Left Side. 

 .'!. On Orthagorhcus mola, BL 



4. On the British .\ loresmidee, and Chcetopteridce. 



5. On the same Families dredged in the ' Porcupine ' Expeditions of 



L869 and 1870. 



6. On the foregoing Families dredged in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 



Canada, by Dr. Whiteavea. 



7. On the same Families dredged in Norwegian Waters and in Finmark 



by Canon Norman. 



1. On the Stranding of an Adult Female Mesoplodon bidens, 

 Sowerby) at St. Andrews. 



For some days in May the fishermen had observed a whale 

 moving between the Castle and the mouth of the Eden about 

 a mile from shore. Then on the afternoon of the 28th May 

 a fisherman-caddie, George Brown, saw what bethought was 

 a horse floundering in the sea about a mile from the Club- 

 house and in shallow water about 150 yards from the edge. 



It floundered on parallel with the shore about 100 yards, 

 apparently after having touched the bottom and without 

 being able to turn its head seawards. He and others went 

 out, waded into the water, and found the whale, which was 

 of a brownish-black colour, paler ventrally, still living, and 

 beating the water with its tail. They prevented the receding 

 tide carrying it out, though, perhaps, such was not likely to 

 happen, and it died in ten minutes. When preparing the 

 carcass, which was over 16 feet in length, for a skeleton, 

 A. W. Brown, of the Laboratory, found that the left shoulder 

 and arm were extensively ecchymosed, the muscles and 



