390 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Sotvety. 
XXVI. Animal Life observed during a Voyage to Antarctic 
Seas. By W.S. Brucez, Naturalist to the s.s. “ Balena.” 
(Read 17th January 1894.) 
The following is simply a brief abstract of the journal I 
kept during a voyage to the Antarctic regions last year. It 
does not in any way profess to contain anything of a very 
original nature, and is not a description of the genera and 
species of the animals met with and obtained during the 
voyage, the greater number of which will be described by 
Professor D’Arcy Thompson at a later date. I am especially 
indebted to Mr W. G. Burn Murdoch, who has given me the 
free use of his valuable notes and sketches. 
The seals and cetaceans were our sole mammalian repre- 
sentatives. I shall first deal with the seals, which have been 
of such special interest of late. 
We met with only four species of seals, all of them being 
true seals, and belonging to the genus Stenorhynchus (Allen). 
The Sea Elephant seal was not seen, nor were any of the 
Otariide. The four were—the Sea Leopard (Stenorhynchus 
leptonyx), Weddell’s False Sea Leopard (Stenorhynchus 
Weddellit), a creamy white seal with a darker dorsal stripe, 
the so-called Crab-Eating Seal or White Antarctic Seal 
(Stenorhynchus carcinophaga), and Ross’s Large-Eyed Seal 
(Stenorhynchus Rossii). Besides these there was another, 
which I think was certainly a younger form of the Sea 
Leopard, the apparent greater sleekness of coat, less promin- 
ence of ligamentous and fibrous structures leading me to this 
conclusion, as well as the condition of the uteri of those 
females that I examined; they, I believe, had never borne 
young, and were not in pregnant condition. 
Ross’s seal is in form and size very like the Creamy White 
Seal (Stenorhynchus carcinophaga), but its coat is somewhat 
sleeker, of a beautiful pale mottled grey colour, darker on the 
back and lighter on the belly, and varying in intensity in 
different individuals. They were usually associated with the 
Creamy White Seals on the pack, and I found many to be with 
young. .As descriptions of all these seals occur in Richardson 
and Gray’s Catalogue of the specimens in the British Museum 
