CONCLUSIONS. D0 1 
neck and trunk together. The length of the individual observed by 
the officers of the Daedalus was estimated by them to be at least 
eighty feet. As he have reckoned above about forty three feet for 
head, neck and trunk together, its tail consequently must have 
been about forty feet long. So the animal’s hind flappers are situ- 
ated almost in the middle of the whole length. And therefore 
HerpE and Brine did not observe them, because the middle part 
of the whole length remained hidden from them (fig. 19). Captain 
Horr states (119) that the animal seen from above on its back 
resembles an alligator with an enormous neck. If the animal had 
not an immense tail, he would never have made this comparison. 
When Captain TrEeMEARNE says “also a great length of tail’ he 
seems to me to have included in his estimation a portion of the 
animal’s trunk (129). The individuals seen by the officers of the 
Osborne (148), of the Pauline (145), and of the Kédtie (154), un- 
doubtedly had a tail of about one hundred or even of one hundred 
and twenty feet in length. Captain p’ABnovr called the tail enor- 
mous (106 4). 
Twice (14, 119) it has been stated that the four flappers were 
seen together; the two fore flappers were seen four times (5, 121, 
129, 148, see also p. 250); and delineated in fig. 19, 36, and 45; 
it is possible that the two hind flappers were twice seen (151, 158), 
and delineated im fig. 49. Four times one of the fore-flappers was 
visible above the surface (106 A, 118, 137, 154) and twice one of 
the hindflappers (118, 154). The foreflappers are called broad and 
large (5), frightful, several feet in length (121), larger than the 
posterior (119), about fifteen feet in length (148), and of immense 
dimensions (154); judging from the drawing illustrating this last 
instance (fig. 50), I should estimate its length also at fifteen feet. 
Captain p’ABNouR saw one of the foreflappers rising to the height 
of about six feet from the water and inclining itself at a consider- 
able angle upon the body (106 A). The hindflappers are said to 
be smaller than the anterior (119), and about ten feet long (154). 
As to the breadth of the head, some observers mention its dia- 
meter, and some its circumference, or they compare its thickness 
either with that of the neck, with that of the trunk, or with 
some well-known object; this is the reason that we meet with the 
following statements: it is rather broad (81), where the head was 
connected with the body (read neck) it was a little larger than 
the body (read neck) (34), the head was rather larger than 
the body (read neck) (48), much smaller than the body (69), 
