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line, 11 feet 3| inches ; breadth 5 feet 7 inches ; length 

 of maxillary beak from notch, over curve 9 feet 8^ 

 inches, in straight line 8 feet 8 inches ; breadth at 

 base across maxillary notches 1 foot Oi inches. Nasals 

 flattened on dorsum, 1 foot long, 2h inches in greatest 

 breadth. 

 (Greenland Seas. Goodsir Collection. 



[Nos. 1 and 2 were obtained by Professor John Goodsir 

 through captains of whaling ships.] 

 3. Foetus, young, of B. mysticehts, stuffed and dried. It 

 was removed ab utero in the Arctic seas, and when 

 fresh was 2 feet 4| inches long from the snout to the 

 end of the tail. It was dissected by Dr Robert Knox 

 and was in the Museum formed by him and Mr F. J. 

 Knox. Descriptions were published in the Cataloffice 



of their Museum, Edinburgh, 1838, and in Froc. 

 Linn. Soc. : Zool., 1857. An interesting feature is 

 the presence of a horizontal flap or fold of skin on 

 each side, 4| inches long and 1 inch Made, continuous 

 with the edge of the lower lip, and extending from the 

 angle of the mouth to 1 inch from the anterior end 



