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a large one was cast ashore on Sullivan's Island which had already been stripped 

 of its baleen and blubber. The ground continues to be regularly visited by 

 whalers, although they report the whale as more abundant between the Gulf 

 Stream and Bermuda — the warm water of the Stream appearing to deter them 

 from venturing any distance within i<s limits. A female, ready to give birth 

 to her young, was secured off the harbor of Port Royal, S. C. in February, 1884, 

 and towed inside, when the operation of cutting up was done at leisure. This 

 specimen was abont sixty feet in length, and, although I did not visit it, I feel 

 certain, from descriptions, that it was a B. biscayensis. The calf, upon meas- 

 urement, proved to be 20 feet in length. 



It is impossible to even conjecture what the age of the Charleston whale was, 

 but, remembering that the foetus above mentioned was twenty feet long, there 

 were probably not maiiy years that elapsed between the time of its birth and 

 the time of its reaching a length of 40 feet. The Charleston whale can be con- 

 sidered as having reached two-thirds of its adult growth, and from inqumes 

 made, it does not seem likel}^ that the Black Whale ever exceeds a length of 60 

 feet. 



Mr. Mazyck mentioned that in a paper on "The Shell-bearing Mollusca of 

 Ehode Island," published in the August number of ''Mnndom Notes on Natu- 

 ral Historg" Mr. Horace B. Carpenter states that the sub -family Bythininm is 

 not represented in America, which is an error, as he possessed an undoubted 

 specimen of Bythinid tentaculata,'L., from Cham^Dlain Canal, near Troy, N.Y., 

 the locality being vouched for by Mr. Thomas Bland, from vrhom the specimen 

 was received. 



Member Elected. 



Kev. DA^^D Levy. 



Correspoi idents Elected. 



Leveeett M. Looisns, Esq., Chester, S. C. 



C. J. HusKE, Esq., Columbia, S. C. 



Wm. Healey Dale, Esq., Smitlisonian Institution. 



John Ponsonby, Esq., London. 



