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1864.| — DR. J. E. GRAY ON A NEW WHALE. 58 
November 22, 1864. 
Prof. Huxley, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 
The Secretary called the attention of the Meeting to some recent 
additions to the Society’s Menagerie :— 
1. A young Saiga Antelope (Saiga tatarica), received in exchange 
from the Zoological Gardens, Moscow ; believed to be the first in- 
stance of the arrival of this scarce animal in this country. 
2. Two males and a female of the Maned Goose of Australia 
(Bernicla jubata), forming an interesting addition to the Society’s 
large series of Waterfowl. 
3. A young female Chimpanzee (Troglodytes niger), which had 
been placed in the new monkey-house, along with the young Orang 
(Simia satyrus), thus affording opportunities of comparing together 
the living outlines and habits of these two Anthropoid Apes. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. Noricr oF THE ATLAS AND OTHER CERVICAL VERTEBRE OF 
a Rigut WHALE IN THE Museum or SypnEy, New Soutu 
Waters. By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. 
Mr. Krefft has most kindly sent to me photographs of some of 
the bones of Cetacea which are contained in the Museum at Sydney, 
which is under his direction. They consist of— 
1 and 2. Two views of the skeleton of Euphysetes grayii, which 
was described by Mr. William Sharp Macleay, and published in a 
work which some time ago appeared under the name of Mr. Wall, 
who I am informed was then employed to prepare skeletons in the 
Sydney Museum. 
3. The atlas vertebra of the Australian Sperm Whale (Catodon 
australis of Macleay), described in the same work. This bone dif- 
fers rather in shape from the atlas vertebra of the Sperm Whale 
figured by Cuvier (Oss. Foss. v. t. 24. f. 12), especially in the lower 
outer angle of the bone not being so acute and produced. 
4 and 5. The atlas and other cervical vertebree, seen in front, and 
the cervical vertebrae without the atlas, seen obliquely, of a Whale. 
These latter bones seem to me to clearly indicate a species of 
Whale which has not yet been described. Ona comparison of these 
with the figures of the cervical vertebree of the Balena mysticetus 
(Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. t. 26. f. 18) and of Hubalena australis (Cuv. 
Oss. Foss. v. t. 26. f. 13), they appear to be more nearly allied to the 
genus Eubalena than to Balena, but are very distinct from either. 
These bones differ from those of both these genera in the atlas 
being separate and free from the other cervical vertebrz, instead of 
being all united together into a single mass. In this respect they 
agree with the cervical vertebre of the Sperm Whale (Catodon) ; 
but they cannot belong to that genus, on account of the general form 
