174 PEOFESSOR OWEN ON INDIAN CETACEA. 



tlie drawings themselves. On the cancelled figure of the Physeter, I now perceive a 

 faint pencil-note in an unknown hand, " wongao," which is wrongly spelt, and quite 

 unauthorized. This has been followed by the addition of a male organ to the figure, 

 also quite gratuitous. No wonder, then, that you were led into error ; and I cannot 

 sufficiently blame myself for not having made a more careful scrutiny of the drawings 

 before despatching them. 



" It also occurs to me that, owing to the fragmentary form in which my notes were 

 communicated to you at different and distant dates, you may have overlooked the fuller 

 and more careful description forwarded in my last letter ; for the text corresponds more 

 nearly with the pencil-note on the drawing ; and the proportions assigned by you to the 

 several parts of the specimen, which differ slightly from my measurements, appear to 

 have been taken from the drawing above, which, though made by measurement, was 

 not exactly according to scale. 



" I have gone into greater detail than perhaps was necessary in explanation of these 

 circumstances, to enable you to make such corrections as you may think necessary to 

 your very valuable and interesting paper, with reference to matters of fact in which I 

 unfortunately misled you. 



" Yours very truly, 



"WALTER ELLIOT." 



" To Professor Owen, F.B.S." 



