CONCLUSIONS. 909 
large, and the flappers themselves are badly represented. It seems, 
however, that the indented edge of the foreflappers did not escape 
the eyes of Mr. Bine. Mr. Baxewett asserts that the flappers are 
described to resemble those of turtles (p. 250); most probably the 
foreflappers are meant here, as these are occasionally seen above 
the surface, which is hardly ever the case with the hindflappers. 
In an animal which was estimated at from 80 to 90 feet in length, 
one of the fore-flappers was occasionally visible at about twenty 
feet in the rear of the head, consequently at about one fourth of 
the whole length (118). Captain Hope states that the flappers were 
somewhat like those of turtles, the anterior pair being larger than 
the posterior (110). According to the figures 36, 45 and 50 on the 
right, the foreflappers resemble those of a sea-lion. In the figures 
36 and 45 the hindmost edge is drawn indented. In the animal 
of the Daedalus, which was from 80 to 90 feet in length, one of 
the hindflappers was occasionally visible at about forty feet in the 
rear of the head, consequently at about the centre of the whole 
length (118). Of course they were invisiblé to Ea@upr and Bine, 
as the middle part of the animal’s body was hidden under water 
(fig. 19). | 
The fore-head is described as high and broad (p. 144) and flat 
(29, 41, 44, 60, 69, 118, 157, fig. 30), or depressed (56) and 
once Mr. Senior thought to observe in it, together with the eye- 
brow, a bull dog appearance (149). 
The snout or muzzle is called long and sharp (5, fig. 19), sharp 
(p. 130, 115, 120), tapering to a point (48), rather pointed (91), 
pointed (118), though the accompanying figure (fig. 30) contradicts 
this, pointed like that of a porpoise (122), an elongated termina- 
tion (148), not pointed but bluntly round (92), not pointed but 
seemed rather blunt (94), a blunt and quadrangular beak as cows 
and horses have (p. 144), evidently with the nostrils opened as 
wide as possible, rather blunt (48), apparently blunt (102), bluff 
(150), obtuse (56), the head, estimated at eight or six feet long, 
consequently at five or four feet broad, tapered to the size of a 
horse’s (34), the snout being somewhat similar in form to that of 
a seal (148). 
The wpperjaw projects considerably (118); we may safely read 
projects. 
Under the jaw there was a quantity of loose skin, like a pouch 
(126). This it seems is occasionally the case, and it is not impos- 
sible as it even occurs in allied animals. 
