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1722. ANON. Whales and Whale Fishing about Bermudas. <Philos. Trans., Abridged 

 by Lowthorp [1665-1700], ii, 1722, pp. 842-845. 



From Philos. Trans. Lond. [i], no. 1, p. 11 [-13] ; no. 8, p. 132 [133]. See supra, ANON, at 1665. 



[181.] 



1722. [LABAT, R. P.] Nouveau | Voyage | aux Isles | de 1'Amerique, | con tenant j 

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 Gouver- | nement des Habitans anciens & raodernes. | Les Gnerres & les 

 Evenemens singuliers qui y sont | arrivez pendant le long sejour que 1'Auteur 

 y a fait. | Le Commerce & les Manufactures qui y sont e^ablies, | & les Moyens 

 de les augmenter. | Avec une Description exacte & curieuse | de toutes ces 

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Description d'un poisson appeH6 Lamentin ou Manati, vol. ii, pp. 200-207, pi. fac. p. 200. 

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1722. LISTER, M. A venomous scratch with the Tooth of a Porpus. <^Philos. Trans., 

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From Philos. Trans. Lond. [xix], no. 233, p. 726. [183.] 



1722. MOLINEUX, G. Several Things in Ireland in common with the West Indies. 

 <Philos. Trans., Abridged by Lowthorp [1665-1700], iii, 1722, pp. 544-546. 

 From Philos. Trans. Lond. [xixj, no. 227, pp. 507[-511]. See supra, this author, at 1697. 

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1722. STAFFORD, R. [Concerning Spermaceti Whales about the Bermudas.] <^Philos. 



Trans., Abridged by Lowthorp [1665-1700], ii,1722,p. 845. 



From Philos. Trans. Lond. [iii], no. 40, p. 793 [=792-795]. See supra, this author, at 1668. 



[185.] 



1723. ZORGDRAGER, C. G. "Alte und neue Gronliindische Fischerei und Wallfischfaug 



mit einer kurzen histor. Beschreibung von Gronland, Island, Spitsbergen, Nova 

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Not seen; title from Bos;:oed, op. cit., p. 253, no. 3616. [186.] 



[1724.] BOYLSTOX. Ambergris found in Whales. <^Philos. Trans. Lond., xxxiii, no. 

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The writer, Dr. Boylston, of Boston, Mass., states that according to the testimony of whale- 

 men ambergris is found in a cyst near the genital parts of Whales probably the first an- 

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1725. DUDLEY, PAUL. An Essay upon the Natural History of Whales, with a particu- 

 lar Account of the Ambergris found in the Sperma Ceti Whale. In a letter to 

 the Publisher, from the Honourable Paul Dudley, Esq.; F. R. S. <Phil. 

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"But here I would have it noted, that the following Account respects only such Whale, as 

 are found on the Coast of Neic England " (p. 256). This short account of 14 pp. is the first of 

 importance relating especially to the Whales of the N"ew England const, in fact, is almost the 

 only one to the present date. The "divers Sorts or Kinds " mentioned arc, 1 . The "Eight, or 

 Whalebone Whale" (pp. 256, 257); 2. The "Scrag Whale"; 3. The Finback Whnlo"; 4. 

 The "Bunch or humpback Whale" (p. 258); 5. The "Sperma Ceti Wbale" (pp. 258,259); 6. 

 The "Killer . . . without doubt the Orca that Dr. Frangius (lege Franzius) describes ..." 

 p. 265. 



Several of these became later the basis of species of systematic writers. Although do- 

 scribed briefly, their characters are so well indicated that it is not difficult to identify the 

 species in the licht of present knowledge of the subject. Other portions of the memoir are 

 devoted to an account of "Sperma Ceti Oil" (pp. 259, 260), "of the Ambergris" (pp. 2C6-269), 

 to the habits of Whales, and to the "Way and Manner of killing Whulos." 



On the Killer of Dudley, cf. HAMEL, Proceed. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sc., viii, 1855. [188.] 



