PHYSETER. 



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luauubriuni, four pairs of costal facets; two mesial 

 foramina ; a transverse fissure on the upper surface 

 marks the plane of separation between the second 

 and third segments. Turner in Journ. Anat. and 

 Phys., 1872, vol. vi. Figures, pp. 72, 73. 



6. Vertebrae, two lumbar, plates ossified to bodies ; also four 

 chevron bones, the longest of which measured 2 feet. 



7. 1 Radius and ulna, fused together at each end. Length 

 of radius 1(3 inches, greatest breadth 9 inches; ulna, 

 length of, 13 inches, carpal breadth 9 inches ; olecranon 

 strong. 



<S. Metacarpal bone, proximal epiphysis ossified, but not 

 fused with shaft. Donor— Mr J. Mackinnon. 



[Nos. 9 to 12 were obtained from Thos. Anderson, Esq., 

 Hillswick, Shetland.] 



9. Mandible of an adult male Sperm Whale, said to be about 

 61 feet long, towed into Roeness Voe, Shetland, in 

 August 1901. The mandible is 16 feet 3 inches 

 long, and the length of the symphysis is 10 feet 



3 inches; the teeth are present, ^ ^. Described 

 by Turner in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., 1903, vol. xxiv. 

 10. Harpoon, head of a pointed explosive massive iron, found 

 in the head of the same whale. It had penetrated 



