ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE FINWHALE FISHERY. 135 
I reached Captain M. C. Bull’s factory at Sérver, on Soréen, 
a short distance to the west of the North Cape, on August 6th; 
up to the date of my departure (the 9th, and I believe no more 
whales were taken subsequently) his total for the season was 
thirty-five whales, against ninety in 1883. However, more oil 
was obtained from this smaller number, as a good many of them 
were Blue Whales, and only three were Rudolphi’s Rorqual, 
against fifteen of this small species the previous year. The flesh 
of Rudolphi’s Rorqual is good to eat, but that of all other kinds 
(or at least all the other Balenopteride) is of too loose a texture, 
and in every way inferior. Herr F. KE. Weil, of Drammen, has 
an establishment here for tinning the ‘‘ beef” of this whale— 
a branch of the widely-known ‘Christiania Preserving Co.” 
The meat is best when the whale is not killed outright, but has 
time to bleed well. This season the business has been a very un- 
profitable concern, as Herr Weil has about a dozen men employed, 
who arrived at Sorver in May, and the three Rudolphi’s Rorquals 
only gave them work for six days! Capt. Bull showed me a bone 
which he said he had found loose in the flesh of a large Blue 
Whale seventy odd feet long, ‘near the flipper,” where neither 
he nor any of his men had ever seen a bone before. It was on 
the left side, and there was no corresponding bone on the opposite 
side. It measures 113 inches in length, and 14 inch in circum- 
ference at the centre. It very closely resembles a clavicle; but 
it is perhaps more natural to suppose that there is some error as 
to the position it was found in, and that it is in reality simply 
a floating rib. 
Capt. Bull manufactures excellent knitting-needles out of the 
mandibles of whales; this bone is the only one in a whale’s 
skeleton sufficiently hard and compact for this purpose. 
_ There first obtained specimens (and they were to be had ad. 
lib.) of a Copepod, parasitic or rather epizoic upon the baleen- 
plates of the Blue Whale, which may apparently always (or at 
least very generally) be found there in almost any quantity; while, 
curiously enough, neither it nor any corresponding species has 
been found on the baleen of the Common Rorqual or any other 
whale. This Copepod was discovered by Herr Per O. C. Aurivillius, 
Licentiate of Philosophy of Upsala, and deseribed by him under 
the name Balenophilus wnisetus (nov. gen. et spec.) in a pamphlet 
published in Stockholm in December, 1879. I have brought home 
