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SPECIMENS OF CETACEA. 



Museum and in Account of the Dissection of a Young 

 Rorqual, by R. Knox, who saw eight distinct hairs at 

 the end of snout in each jaw. He proved it to be 

 specifically distinct from the Great Rorqual {B. 

 sibhaldi), Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., April 1884. 

 Queensferry, Firth of Forth, February 1834. 



Knox Collection, No. 28. 



2. Skeleton, adult, female, articulated, with dorsal and caudal 

 fins, pelvic bones, hyoid and baleen wreath in situ. 

 Dorsal fin 7 feet from mid end of tail. Length of 

 whale in straight line 28 feet 4 inches ; length of 

 skull in straight line 5 feet 10 inches ; length of 

 humerus Hi inches, of radius 18^ inches, of ulna 

 18 inches ; lenc^th of mandible on convex surface 6 

 leet 4^- inches; vertebral formula C-DjjLj3Cd^9 = 50. 

 Granton, Firth of Forth, January 1888. 



Donor — Sir John Murray, K.C.B. 



[The Granton specimen (No. 2) was an adult female, 

 and the vertebral plates were ossified to the bodies 

 of their respective vertebrae. It is described by 

 Sir Wm. Turner in Proc. Roij. Soc. Edin., February 

 1892, vol. xix. Figure above, and Plate VII. In the 

 same memoir measurements are given of its skull and 

 of those of Bpt. R., Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 in the Museum. 

 Nos. 2 to 22 are from the Turner Collection.] 



3. Skull of a young female 18 feet long, with mandible. 

 Length of skull 3 feet 8 inches ; length of maxilla 

 from notch 2 feet 3 inches, breadth at base of beak 

 1 foot 2 k inches. 

 Burntisland, Firth of Forth, September 1870. 



Donor — George Prentice, Esq. 



