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(Enhydra marina), which is singularly included with the Pinni- 
pedia! The history of the wholesale destruction of these animals 
for commercial purposes possesses a peculiar and rather melan- 
choly interest. Besides adding much new matter to the history of 
the fur seal as observed by the writer on the California coast, 
the chapter is made much more complete by the quotation of the 
greater part of Capt. Bryant’s excellent article on the fur seals 
of Alaska, published a few years since in the Bulletin of the Mu- 
seum of Comparative Zoology.* 
Part III is possibly the most interesting portion to the general 
reader, giving as it does not only a succinct chronological and 
statistical history of the American Whale-fishery, but also vividly 
portraying the privations, dangers, and excitements attending this 
daring pursuit, as well as the special training, energy and skill 
necessary to its successful prosecution. New England may well 
be proud of the names so favorably mentioned as the founders and 
leaders in this great enterprise, whose vessels were often the first 
to bear our national emblem to remote waters and distant seaports. 
In the appendix is given a systematic “catalogue of the Cetacea 
of the North Pacific Ocean” by Mr. W. H. Dall, of the U. S. Coast 
Survey, prepared with special reference to Capt. Scammon’s mono- 
graph in the preceding pages of the general work. This catalogue 
embraces also many osteological notes and descriptions of new 
forms. The list comprises about forty-four species, which Mr. 
Dall observes, “appear to be more or less thoroughly character- 
ized,” but ten are of unknown habitat. ‘Leaving these out,” he 
adds (with all species based on insufficient material), we have as 
the approximate distribution of the known Pacific Cetacea : Japan, 
five species; northern seas, six species, including two Or three 
which visit California; warm seas and South Pacific, eleven SP 
cies ; coast of Western North America, from the Aleutian Islands 
to Central America, eighteen species, including several visitors 
from the Arctic Seas.” 
The volume closes with a “glossary of words and phrases used 
by whalemen,” and a list of the “stores and outfits” usually taken 
out by a first-class whale-ship for a Cape Horn voyage. 
While Capt. Scammon’s work is very satisfactory in the fulness 
with which it deals with external characters— color, size, form 
proportions, etc.—and in its biographical details, the author ab- 
Vol. II, pp. 95-108, 1870. 
