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TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
ELHE ZOOLOGLCAL SOCLETY. 
I. On Risso’s Dolphin, Grampus griseus (Cuv.). By WituiaM Henry Fiower, /.2.S., 
F.R.CS., V.P.Z.S., Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Conservator 
of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 
Read June 6th, 1871. 
[Puatzs I. and IT.] 
ON the 28th of February, 1870, an animal belonging to the Order Cetacea was taken 
in a mackerel-net near the Eddystone Lighthouse, and brought into Plymouth. It was 
afterwards sent to the Columbia Fish Market, London, was then exhibited in the 
Kingsland Road, where I first saw it on the 4th of March, and finally lodged at 
Mr. E. Gerrard’s workshop, where the skin and skeleton were prepared for the British 
Museum, and where the very carefully executed drawings (PI. I. figs. 1-3) which accom- 
pany this communication were made, by Mr. Sherwin, under my superintendence’. 
The animal was a female, and (as afterwards appeared from the condition of the 
bones) perfectly adult. Moreover there was evidence that she had recently given birth 
to a calf. 
The principal dimensions were as follows (all the measurements are taken in a straight 
lines with calipers, unless otherwise stated) :— 
ft. in. 
Length, from anterior edge of upper lip to notch in middle of caudal fin . 10 6 
From upper lip to anterior edge of dorsalfn. . . . . . ... . 311 
Fromupper lip to anterior angle ofeye. «9. 2)... © + » has bY 
' T have much pleasure in acknowledging the great facilities which Mr. Gerrard afforded me in examining 
both the specimens described in this communication. 
f- VoL. VilI.—PART I. March, 1872. B 
