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Bay of Kiel. The sailors succeeded in separating about thirty of them from 

 the remainder, but all, with one exception, escaped. This was a female 16 

 feet long, which, after being exhibited at Kiel and other places, was bought 

 for the Museum of the University of Kiel. In the summer of 1862, three 

 other individuals, presumably from the same shoal, were thrown ashore on the 

 north-western coast of Zealand. Of the general appearance of this creature 

 the accompanying figure (24), copied, by kind permission, from Professor 

 Flower's translation of Reinhardt's paper,* published by the Ray Society, 

 will give an idea ; the figure is from a photograph of the Kiel specimen, and 

 is not in the original paper. The length is from 16 to 19 feet ; of the colour 

 no account is given, but, judging from the woodcut of the Kiel specimen, it 

 appears to be uniformly shiny black. The number of teeth differs in indi- 

 viduals, but in this one it was from 9 to 10 on either side of the lower jaw, 

 and 8 to 10 in the upper. From the observations made by Reinhardt, he 

 suggests a possibility that there may be " a difference in the sizes of the 

 different sexes, and whether the females are not larger, but at the same time, 

 perhaps, provided with a head comparatively smaller than that of the males." 

 It is very suggestive of how little we know of the inhabitants of the sea, that 

 at least one vast shoal of a species known only from its sub-fossil remains 

 should be roaming the seas only to be accidentally discovered when its 

 members became entangled in shallows from which probably many never 

 lived to extricate themselves. 



RISSO'S GRAMPUS. 



RiSSO'S Dolphin {Grampus griseiis, G. Cuvier; Grampus cuvieri, Gray, 

 Ann. Nat. Hist., 1846) is a rare and little-known species, which has been met 



Read before the Royal Danish Society of Sciences, in 1S62. 



