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  escaping 
  them, 
  and 
  was 
  afterwards 
  found 
  dead 
  by 
  some 
  

   Stonehaven 
  fishermen. 
  Its 
  skeleton 
  is 
  now 
  in 
  Dundee 
  

   Museum. 
  

  

  Genus 
  BALiENOPTERA. 
  

   Balaenoptera 
  musculus. 
  Linn. 
  Great 
  Fin 
  Whale. 
  

  

  A 
  specimen 
  of 
  this 
  Whale 
  got 
  entangled 
  in 
  the 
  salmon 
  

   nets 
  in 
  Aberdeen 
  Bay 
  on 
  20th 
  June, 
  1870. 
  Another, 
  measuring 
  

   64 
  feet 
  long, 
  was 
  brought 
  into 
  Peterhead 
  in 
  June, 
  1871, 
  and 
  

   was 
  dissected 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Struthers, 
  Professor 
  of 
  Anatomy 
  at 
  

   Aberdeen 
  University. 
  Parts 
  of 
  the 
  skeleton 
  now 
  adorn 
  the 
  

   Anatomical 
  Museum 
  there. 
  There 
  is 
  perhaps 
  no 
  museum 
  in 
  

   the 
  Kingdom 
  where 
  the 
  Cetacea 
  are 
  so 
  fully 
  represented 
  as 
  in 
  

   that 
  of 
  Aberdeen 
  University. 
  This 
  is 
  due 
  to 
  the 
  enlightened 
  

   and 
  unceasing 
  labours 
  of 
  the 
  gentleman 
  above 
  named, 
  in 
  

   which 
  he 
  was 
  ably 
  seconded 
  by 
  his 
  assistant, 
  Mr. 
  Robert 
  Gibb. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  the 
  commonest 
  form 
  of 
  Cetacea 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  coast 
  

   of 
  Scotland, 
  specimens, 
  old 
  and 
  young, 
  being 
  not 
  infrequently 
  

   cast 
  on 
  the 
  beach 
  or 
  found 
  dead 
  at 
  sea. 
  Two 
  were 
  brought 
  

   into 
  Aberdeen 
  during 
  1893. 
  

  

  Balaenoptera 
  rostrata, 
  Fabricius. 
  Lesser 
  Fin 
  Whale. 
  

  

  A 
  female, 
  14f 
  feet 
  long, 
  was 
  stranded 
  on 
  Aberdeen 
  Beach 
  

   in 
  July, 
  1870. 
  It 
  was 
  dissected 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Struthers, 
  and 
  its 
  

   skeleton 
  added 
  to 
  the 
  Anatomical 
  Museum 
  of 
  Aberdeen 
  

   University. 
  

  

  Another, 
  also 
  a 
  female, 
  14 
  feet 
  long, 
  was 
  brought 
  into 
  

   Catterline, 
  Kincardineshire, 
  in 
  1882. 
  

  

  Genus 
  HYPEROODON. 
  

  

  Hyperoodon 
  bidens, 
  Mailer. 
  Bottle-nosed 
  Whale. 
  

  

  One 
  was 
  brought 
  into 
  Fraserburgh 
  on 
  August 
  17th, 
  1871, 
  

   and 
  parts 
  of 
  its 
  skeleton 
  were 
  secured 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Struthers. 
  

  

  Family 
  DELPHINIDiE. 
  

   Genus 
  MONODON. 
  

   [Monodon 
  monoceros, 
  Linn. 
  Narwhal. 
  

  

  " 
  Last 
  summer, 
  I 
  was 
  informed 
  by 
  the 
  Fishery 
  or 
  Coast 
  

   Guard 
  Officer 
  at 
  Pennan, 
  a 
  White 
  Whale 
  was 
  seen 
  disporting 
  

  

  