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No. 2. 
Skull of same. Side view. 
No. 
Skull of same. Upper view. 
No. 4. 
Skull of same. Lower view. 
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No. 5. 
Left mandibular tooth of same. (Pl. XXIV., fig. 3.) 
A. Front view. 
B. Back view. 
C. Section. 
No. 6. 
Left tympanic bone of same. (Pl. XXIV., fig 1.) 
B. Upper  ,, 
No. 7: 
Sternum of same, (Pl. XXVI.) 
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Skull of Epiodon nove zealandie, female, obtained in Akaroa Harbour. 
ide view. (P1. XXVI 
No. 9. 
Skull of same. Upper view. 
No. 10. 
Skull of same. Lower view. 
No. 11. 
Mandibular right tooth of the same. (Pl. XXIV., fig. 2.) 
A. Left side. 
B. Right side. 
C. Section. 
Art. LV.—Notes on Mesoplodon floweri. By Jurus von Haast, Ph.D., 
F.R.S., Director of the Canterbury Museum, New Zealand. 
[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 6th September, 1876.] 
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e. 
Ix the beginning of April, 1874, the information reached me that a Whale 
about eighteen feet long had been stranded on the sea beach near Saltwater 
Creek, about thirty miles north of Banks Peninsula, and although I did not 
lose any time in securing the skeleton for the Canterbury Museum, I was 
too late to obtain the necessary information as to form, colour, position of 
fins, etc., the animal having in the meantime been stripped in order to 
obtain the blubber, Fortunately, however, no bone was lost, and on exa- 
mination the animal proved to be a Mesoplodon, closely allied to a specimen 
obtained at the Cape of Good Hope, of which the skull has been described 
by Professor R. Owen, and figured Vol. XXIII. of the Palwontographical 
