i8 SPECIMENS OF CETACEA. 



1. Skull. Cast of the type skull, imperfect, described by 



James Sowerby in 1806 from the specimen stranded 

 in 1800 near Brodie House, Moray Firth. The animal 

 was a male, and the beak, the anterior part of 

 the cranium, and the mandible are preserved in the 

 Museum of the University of Oxford. 



Donor— Sir H. W. Acland, Bart. 

 [Nos. 2 to 17 are from the Turner Collection.] 



2. Skeleton, articulated, with caudal fin, pelvic bones, 



mandible, and hyoid. Whale caught in Voxter Voe, 

 Shetland, June 188.5 ; an adult male, 15 feet 8 inches 

 long. Skull 30 inches long, beak 20|^ inches long; 

 medio-rostral ossified. Vertebral formula CyD^^L^^Cdig 

 = 47. Described by Sir Wm. Turner, Journ. Anat. 

 and Phyi^., vol. xx., 1885. Donor — Dr C. A. Anderson. 



3. Skeleton, articulated, with dorsal and caudal fins, mandible, 



and hyoid. Caught in Dalgety Bay, Firth of Forth, 

 October 1888: male, 15 feet 1 inch long; weight 18 

 cwt. See Turner in Proc. Boy. Phys. Soc. Edin., 

 vol. X., 1889, and Journ. Anat. and Pkys., vol. xxiii., 

 1889. Donor— The Earl of Moray. 



4. Skull, with mandible. The whale, 14 feet long, an adult 



male, was stranded at Urafirth Voe, Shetland, in 

 April 1881. Breadth of skull 11;| inches; breadth of 

 beak 7^ inches. Tip of slender beak broken, medio- 

 rostral ossified. See Turner, Journ. Anat. and Phys., 

 vol. xvi., April 1882. Donor — Thos. Anderson, Esq. 



5. Skull, with mandible ; approximate length 2 feet 7 inches, 



breadth 11| inches. Beak 19 inches long, breadth at 

 base 7f inches, slightly curved at tip, medio-rostral 

 ossified for 8 inches ; right side, back of skull, and 

 mandible broken. 

 Morrison's Haven, Firth of Forth, 1895. 



