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you could just insert your finger ends between them to the depth of 
about one-and-a-half inches. It is difficult to understand what use 
they subserve in the economy of the animal. The whale was a 
male, and probably of considerable age. The weight was variously 
estimated from seventy to one hundred tons. It was sold by auction 
on the coast for seventy-five pounds. 
Since this was written I have had a most interesting conversation 
with Mr. Winson relative to the capture. Mr. Winson says the 
upper jaws rested well within the lower, and, when the mouth was 
closed, there was a considerable free space between the two, so much 
so, that after the creature’s death he lifted his little daughter into the 
space, and she was able to walk all round outside the mouth 
within the lower lip. The baleen plaits were very nearly white in 
front and brownish towards the back of the mouth. The inner 
surface being frayed out much like a brush, these bristles were white. 
The roof of the mouth was a most beautiful contrast to these, and 
pink in colour, with regular prominent bars or ridges crossing it. 
Just before the whale died it opened its mouth for about a minute 
and a half—an eight-foot man might have very well then stood inside. 
In the act of breathing the plaits or furrows on the under surface . 
contracted and expanded in the most wonderful manner. Seawee 
and mud thrown into the blow-hole were violently expelled, but not — 
the stones and gravel. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Mr. Arnold T. Leonie: of Sheffield, writes = 5 ce pred May 5th, 1892, p- 7; 
that Prof. W. C. McIntosh — as Sabella sa saxicava the annelid whose curious 
protective device wa described in ‘ Nature’ of last § September 
oe 
This year’s list of fifteen candidates selected for the Spr us | of the Royal 
Society includes two names of special interest to our rea Seldom has the 
t 
eds, 
C. Miall, F.L.S., F.Z.S., and the active and peed. ers Professor of Natural 
History at the Liverpool Ciliversity College, Mr. W. A ' »F. 
etc. Prof. Miall’s researches in com rides anatomy sais paleontology, and 
Prof. Herdman’s very successful work in investigating the marine fauna and flora 
ls y, have L 
o the grateful appreciation of all investigators of Natural Science in the 
North of England, and the honour now conferred on them is well-deserved. 
Speaking of the Fellowship of the _ Society, may we be permitted to express 
our feeling of surprise that the Society should not lon ng ago have honoured itself 
p Aaa the nrg Bit hie a Russell ‘Wallace > and Prof. Jot Obadiah Westwood, 
ose 
eminent of aeeelonn ists ee. this or am ec eae. Society has pet 
its appreciation of Prof. Westwood’s m ts by ey geoie sO him praesent 
Life Pr Picadant, an honour which had ‘oes eevionaly: borne by the Rev. 
