28 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



Jacob in an admirable memoir published in 1825,^ in which 

 he showed the inapplicability of M. Lacepede's generic name, 

 and suggested instead Ceto-clioclon. The skeleton of this 

 animal is preserved in the Museum of the Eoyal College of 

 Surgeons in Dublin. Subsequently the late Mr AVilliam 

 Thompson of Belfast wrote and published two papers of 

 notes of eight other specimens captured on the coast of 

 Ireland up to the end of October 1845,^ and it is stated that 

 five of these were taken in the months of either August, 

 September, or October. The crania of three Irish specimens 

 of Hyperoodon are preserved in museums in Dublin, in 

 addition to the skeleton of the animal described by Dr 

 Jacob ; and the skull of the specimen captured in Belfast 

 Lough, 29th October 1845, is preserved in the Belfast 

 Museum. 



Mr W. Thompson, in the first of his papers on bottle- 

 nosed whales, refers to a newspaper account of two speci- 

 mens captured together in October 1839 in Lochryan, Wig- 

 townshire, which he thought from their size might be 

 examples of Hyperoodon. Although their sex is not stated, 

 it is not unlikely that they were a mother and -a young 

 one. 



In October 1845 an adult female and a young female, 

 which were identified as Hyperoodon by the late Professor 

 John Goodsir, were captured at Alloa,^ in the Firth of Forth, 

 and these are the first specimens v/hich established this 

 whale as belonging to the fauna of Scotland, In the minute- 

 book of the now extinct AVernerian Society, it is recorded 

 that on 28th March 1846 Mr Goodsir communicated a paper 

 " On the Characters and Anatomical Structure of the Hyper- 

 oodon Dalei taken from a specimen stranded during last 



^ Dublin Philosophical Journal and Scientific Keview, vol. i,, p. 58, 

 1825; reprinted in Jacob's "Essays, Anatomical, Zoological," etc., Dublin, 

 1845. 



2 Annals of Natural History, vol. iv., p. 375, 1840 ; and ibid., vol. xvii., 

 1846. 



3 Obituary notice of Professor John Goodsir, by Prof. J. H. Balfour in 

 Trans. Bot. Soc. of Edinburgh, vol. ix., 1866-67 ; also referred to in an 

 Address by Professor Balfour to the Royal Physical Society, 24th November 

 1858. 



