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Most attention has been paid to indicating papers that describe the 



various forms of cetaceans, and especially to those which contain 



illustrations of the fossil members of the order.) : 



Cuvier : Recherches sur les Ossemens f ossiles, ed. 4, vol. 8, pt. 2. 

 1836, pp. 250-321, pis. 226-228, with figures of skulls and other 

 skeletal parts of Balcena, Balcpnoptcra, Megaptcra, Plesiocetus, 

 mostly under other names. 



Eschricht: Unders^gelser over Hvaldyrene, 2 den Afhandl., Anato- 

 misk Beskr. af de ydre Fosterformer hos to nordiske Finhval- 

 Arter ; Kgl. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. naturv. mathem. Afhandl., 

 pt. II, 1845, PP- 203-279. 3 dje Afhandl., Om Fosterformerne i 

 Bardehvalernes Ernserings- og Forplantelsesredskaber ; ibid., pp. 

 281-320, pis. 1-4. 5 te Afhandl., Finhvalernes Oesteologi og 

 Artsadskillelse ; ibid., pt. 12, 1846, pp. 225-396, pis. 4-16. BalcB- 

 noptera, Megaptcra. Figures of skulls and other skeletal parts, 

 of embryos and adults, of external and other characters. 



Eschricht and Reinhardt: Om Nordhvalen {Balcena mysticetus L.) ; 

 Kgl. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter, ser. 5, naturv. mathem, 

 Afd., vol. 5, 1 861, pp. 433-592, pis. 1-6. Figures of the exterior, 

 the entire skeleton, the skull of adult and young and other parts 

 of Balcpna, of the skull of Balcenopfera and Megaptcra. 



Malm : Monographic illustree du Baleinoptere trouve le 29 Octobre 

 1865 sur la cote occidentale de Suede, 1867, pp. i-iio, pis. 1-20, 

 with figures of the exterior, some skeletal parts and other features 

 of Balccnoptcra carolincc = B. gigas, sibbaldii. 



Eschricht : Ni Tavler til Oplysning af Hvaldyrenes Bygning, med 

 Forklaring af Reinhardt ; Kgl. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter, 

 ser. 5, naturv. mathem. Afd., vol. 9, i, 1869. On plates i and 2 

 are found figures of the skull of embryo BalcBna japonica = 

 B. australis. 



Van Beneden and Gervais : Osteographie des Cetaces vivants et 

 f ossiles, text and plates, 1868-80, pp. 1-634, pis. 1-67. As 

 regards illustrations, with respect to both recent and extinct 

 Cetacea, the most sumptuous work that exists. Balsenids espe- 

 cially pp. 29-291, pis. 1-17. 



Dwight: Description of the Whale (Balcenoptera musculiis Auct.) in 

 the possession of the Society, with remarks on the classification 

 of Fin Whales; Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 2, 1871-78, 

 pp. 203-230, pis. 6-7. Exterior and skeleton. 



Brandt : Untersuchungen iiber die f ossilen und subf ossilen Cetaceen 

 Europa's ; Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, ser. 7, vol. 20, 



