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Museum of tlie Hull Literary and Philosophical Society, 

 as a new species, under the name of Physalus sibbaldii. 

 In 1864 Prof. Flower bestowed the name of Physalus 

 latirostris on a skeleton in the collection of the late Prof. 

 Lidth de Jeude at Utrecht (now in the British Museum), 

 but he soon became convinced that it was identical with 

 the Hull specimen {P.Z. S. 1865, p. 472). In the course 

 of the next year a Fin-whale, taken near Gothenburg in 

 Sweden, was described by Prof. Malm as a new species — 

 B. caroling — but it has been identified with B. sibbaldii by 

 Professors Flower and Reinhardt, and their determination 

 has been generally accepted. 



On the 3rd November 1869, a large Rorqual stranded 

 itself near Longniddry, in the Firth of Forth, and soon 

 died. It was carefully examined and dissected by Prof. 

 Turner, to whose papers in the " Transactions of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh " we have already referred. 

 This specimen proved to be a pregnant female of Sibbald's 

 Rorqual, containing a male foetus of the length of nine- 

 teen feet six inches. The carcase was sold by the Board 

 of Trade to an oil-merchant, and the skeleton, along with 

 various anatomical preparations, were secured for the 

 Edinburgh Museum. About the same time a female 

 Fin-whale with its calf was stranded in Hamna Voe, 

 Shetland, and some of its bones,, afterwards secured by 

 Prof. Turner, proved that it, too, belonged to this 

 species. 



The Steypireythr of the Icelanders has been clearly 

 shown by Prof. Reinhardt to be identical with Sibbald's 

 Rorqual, and in all probability the TunnoUk of the 

 Greenlanders is the same. It is said to be constantly 

 seen between 63° 40' and 66° 20' north latitude, and to be 

 the most abundant Fin-whale about Iceland, where it is 

 chiefly seen in summer. According to Holboll, it is plen- 



