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warehouse on the north side of Henry Street, behind 

 Duke Street. It proved to be the humerus of the fore- 

 limb of a whale, and was five feet in length, and must 

 have belonged to a very large individual. It had been 

 buried before, or at the time the warehouse was built, 

 probably in the garden of a house in Duke Street. 

 Besides these, I have heard of other such bones being 

 found, but did not always consider it worth while going to 

 see them, and the localities are now forgotten. The ramus 

 of a whale was seen during excavations at University 

 College* in the debris filling "Brooke and Seacomb's 

 quarry," but the only bones, other than the jaw-bones, 

 exposed in the neighbourhood now are two scapulae — large 

 fan-shaped bones — set up in front of a cottage in Waver- 

 tree village, and the lumbar vertebra, with the transverse 

 processes, in a rockery on the north side of Swiss Boad, 

 Elm Park. 



All the bones described appear to have belonged to the 

 Greenland whale, Baloena mysticetus, which has been 

 found from sixty to seventy feet, and sometimes as much 

 as eighty feet in length. Last year a single ramus of the 

 lower jaw of a whale was found in the nets of the steam 

 trawler " Jackdaw," and it was presented to the Free 

 Public Museum, where it now remains. It is seventeen 

 feet in length and one and a half feet wide, and has the 

 articular termination. 



Vertebrae and rib-bones of whales have been found in 

 the post-glacial deposits at Wallasey Pool, belonging to 

 young individuals, about twenty-five feet in length, which 

 had perished in the shallow water of Liverpool Bay, as 

 several have done in recent years, and I have seen at least 

 three of them. 



* Dr. Herdmau. 



