ON 



THE GREENLAND RIGHT-WHALE, 



[BALÆNA MTSTICETUS, Linn.), 



WITH ESPECIAL KEFERENCE TO ITS GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION AND 



MIGRATIONS IN TIMES PAST AND PRESENT, AND TO ITS EXTERNAL 



AND INTERNAL CHARACTERISTICS. 



D. P. ESCHEICHT, M.D., 



Professor of Fhysiology in the Universifj/ of Co-penhagen ; Member of the Royal Danish Society of Sciences, and of the Imperial 

 Zeopold-CaroUne Academy of Naturalists ; Corresponding Member of the Royal Academies of Stockholm, TJpsala, and Berlin, and of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia : Sonorary Member of the Society of Natural History and Medicine of Dresden, of 

 the Scientific and Medical Union of Samburg ; Member of the Societies of Naturalists of Damig and Heidelberg, of the Medical 

 Societies of Copenhagen, Christiania, and Stockholm; Corresponding Member of the PhilomatUc Society of Paris, of the 'Société dit 

 Museum d'Histoire Naturelle' of Straslurg, of the Societies of Naturalists of Rostock and Freiburg, and of the Medical Societies of 

 Vienna and Anttcerp, etc. etc. ; 



J. EEINHAEDT, 



Professor and Inspector at the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen ; Member of the Uoyal Danish Society of 

 Sciences ; Foreign Member of the Zoological Society of London; Honorary Member of the British Ornithologists' Union; Correspond, 

 ing Member of the Imperial Academy of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro; Member of the Society of Naturalists of Halle, and of the 

 Imperial and Royal Zoological and Botanical Societies of Vienna. 



{Translated from the Banish.) 



Proji the ' Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, 5te Række, Naturvidens- 

 kabelig OG Mathejiatisk Afdeling/ Ste Bind, 1861. 



