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VII. On the Organization of the Caaing Whale, Globiocephalus' melas. 
By Dr. James Morir, F.L.S., F.G.S., &e. 
Read June 27th, 1867. 
{Puates XXX. to XXXVIIL.] 
I. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND History OF SPECIMEN. 
THE labours of the majority of recent investigators on the Cetacea have mainly been 
devoted to the skeleton and external characters. These structures form the basis 
of a truer system of classification which has been engrafted on the previously existing 
knowledge of the order. Thus, although it is to the skeleton we may look for the 
safest guide in distinguishing generic and, it may be, specific differences, yet a study 
of the anatomy of the soft textures and organs, if not yielding such valuable results as 
regards classification, may still tend to the useful in science, and therefore be com- 
mendable. 
Hitherto only a few monographs, confined to a full description of a single species, 
have appeared. Those of Professors Sandifort*, W. Vrolik®, Eschricht and Reinhardt* 
are among the best examples worth citing. But little of a connected nature has been 
published upon the soft anatomy of Globiocephalus’, and this so poorly figured that the 
present attempt to supply the hiatus, it is hoped, will prove an acceptable addition to 
the literature of the subject’. 
1 Globicephalus, and not Globiocephalus, has recently been advocated by Professor Flower, T. Z. 8. viii. p. 20. 
Etymologically neither is strictly appropriate ; that I follow is known best; usage justifies preference. 
2 « Bijdragen.... Walvisschen,” in N. Verh. d. 1. Kl. Nederl. Inst. 1831 (5 plates). 
3 « Hyperoodon,” in Nat. Verh. Maatsch. Haarlem, 1849 (15 plates). 
* “On the Greenland Right Whale,” Ray Soc. 1866, from the Danish Trans. 1861. 
5° Vide Dr. Jackson, Dissection of the Phoccna globiceps, Bost. Journ. of Nat. Hist. vol. v. p. 160; Gulliver, 
Delphinus melas, P. Z. 8. 1853, p. 63; and Dr. Williams, G@. chinensis ?, Gray, Chinese Repository, vol. vi. (1838) 
p. 411. 
® Five years have now elapsed since the present communication was written and read, The above remark, 
therefore, necessarily applies to that date; for in the interval numerous strictly anatomical papers and mono- 
graphs, both on the present species and other Cetaceans, have been published. Witness Dr. Macalister ‘* On 
some points in the Anatomy of Globiocephalus svineval,” P.Z. 8. 1867, p. 477 ; Professor Turner, * A Contribu- 
tion to the Anatomy of the Pilot Whale,” Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1867, p. 104 (also in Journ. of Anat. and Physiol. 
Noy. 1867, p. 66, and Nov. 1868, p. 117); M. Fischer, ‘On Grampus griseus,” Ann. d. Sci. Nat. 1867, p. 363 ; 
Dr. Burmeister, “Anatomy of Pontoporia blainvillii,” P. Z. S. 1867, p. 484, previously published in the Anales 
d. Mus. Pub. d. Buenos Aires, tom. i. p. 389, pls. 25-27, also ejusd. Deserip. &c. of Hpiodon australe, p. 312, 
pls. 15-20; Drs. Carte & Macalister, “On the Anatomy of Balenoptera rostrata,” Philos. Trans. 1868, p. 201; 
VoL. viil.—Part iv. February, 1873. 2M 
