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Ois^ A Skeleton of a Whale ix the Provincial Museum, 

 Halifax, Xova Scotia; with Xotes on the Fossil 

 Cetacea of Xckth America. — By Georue H. Per- 

 kins, Ph. D., Professor of Geology, University of Ver- 

 mont, State Geologist of Vermont, Bniiington, Vt. 



(Received for publication 29th July. 1C08.I 



Skeleton cf a Whale from Jacquet River, Xew Brunswick. 



In the Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of 

 Science, vol. ii., pp. 400-404, 1873, Dr. J. Pernard Gilpin pub- 

 lished " Observations on some Fossil Bones found in Xew 

 Brunswick.'" In course of a study of the fossil cetiicea of 

 North America, the attention of the author was directed to the 

 above article, and learning that the bones described bv Dr. 

 Gilpin were preserved in the Provincial Museum of Xova 

 Scotia, at Halifax, enquiries concerning ihem were sent to ^Lr. 

 Harry Piers, the curator, and by his courtesy the specimens 

 were sent from Halifax in order that they might be carefully 

 studied and compared with the skeleton of the Vermont speci- 

 men with which the Canadian bones had been considered 

 identical. 



The account written by Dr. Gilpin is brief and without 

 illustration, and he had no similar Iwnes with which he could 



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