404: Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



Turner, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society 

 of PJdinhurgh, vol. xix. pp. :-)6-75. The Granton Quarry 

 specimen (Jan. 1888) is there very fully described. 



Beaked Whale (Hyperoodon rostratus (Chemn.) ). 



Examples of the Beaked Whale continue to be taken 

 in the estuary of the Forth I'rom time to time. Since 

 the date of my first paper (1892) I have noted the 

 following : — 



Male, stranded at Grangemouth, March 1894. 



One, about 25 feet long, captured near Bo'ness, October 

 1895; examined by J. Simpson (Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1896, 

 p. 2). 



Young female, about 6 feet long, found dead on shore near 

 Cockburnspath, ISTovember 1895. 



One, weighing 6J cwts., caught in salmon-net near 

 Stirling, 13th July 1897. 



Two, 10 and 11 feet in length respectively, stranded near 

 Culross, 24th July 1898. 



One, about 20 feet long, captured on the south side of 

 the Forth near Grancremouth, 14th Ausfust 1905. 



Sowerby's Whale {Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby)). 



The second example of Sowerby's Whale for the Firth of 

 Forth came ashore at Morrison's Haven, Haddingtonshire, 

 in the latter part of April 1895, and its buried remains 

 were exhumed and examined in June following by the 

 late James Simpson — see his note in An7i. Scot. Nat. Hist., 

 1895, p. 250. The specimen was a male, probably about 

 15 feet in length. 



Eisso's Gkampus {Grampus griseus (G. Cuv.) ). 



An example of this rare cetacean — 10 feet in length, 

 and the first obtained in the Forth estuary — was captured 

 near Kincardine-on-Forth on 15th October 1904, and 

 sent to the Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, as reported 

 in the Glasgow Hercdd of 28th October. The newspaper 



