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V. — 1874. A considerable portion of a skeleton; Jacqiiet 

 Eiver, X. B. ; Dr. J. B. Gilpin. Provincial Museum, 

 Halifax, X. S. 

 VI. — 1883. A few vertebrte and fragment of a rib; Smith^i 

 Falls, Ont. ; Sir J. W. Dawson. Redpath Museimi. 

 VIT. — 1891. A portion of the lower jaw of a lartre whale; 

 Metis, Quebec; Sir J. W. Dawscn. Redpath Museum. 

 VIII. — 1895. A nearly complete skeleton; Smith's brickyard, 

 Montreal ; Sir J. W. Dawson, Redpath ]\Iuseum, 

 Montreal. 

 IX. — 1901. A hyoid, ribs and other bones; "Williamstown, 

 Ont. ; Mr. E. Ardsley. Redpath Museum. 

 X. — 1901. Several vertebrae, ribs and i^arts of cranium ; 

 Smith's brickyard, MontreaL Redpath Museum. 

 XI. — 1906. Most of the skull, several veriebrae; Pakenham, 

 Ont. ; Dr. J. F. AVhiteaves. Xot ia a museum. 

 The following notes on the above specimens may not be 

 without value to those who have not readv access to the 

 skeletons themselves. With the exception of the Pakenham 

 specimen, the author has examined all the specimens named in 

 the list. Hearty acknowledgments are due Mr. Harry Piers, 

 Provincial ^Museum, Halifax, X. S. ; Mr. Edward Ardsley, of 

 the Peter Redpath Museum ; Dr. Whiteaves and Mr. Lambe of 

 the museum of the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, for 

 freely giving all possible aid in the examination of the specimens 

 in those museums. 



I. — The Vermont specimen, plates V-VIII, has been longest 

 known and has often been considered as the tvpe to which most 

 of the others since discovered have lieen referred. For this 

 reasoni. as well as for the sake of adding completeness to this 

 paper, a somewhat full accoimt of this historic specimen may be 

 given in this connection. Plate V shows this specimen as now 

 mounted in the Vermont museum. Very unfortunately, 

 the mounting was not done by an anatomist, and most of the 



