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of Edinburgh, Session, 1881 - 82 . 
ulna was 11 inches long, 5f broad at the upper end, measured 
across the olecranon, 3J at the lower end, and only 2J in breadth in 
the middle of the shaft. The radius was 20-J inches in length, and 
with much less difference in breadth between the upper and lower 
ends and the middle of the shaft than was seen in the ulna. 
Thirteen carpal bones were present, and one was probably missing. 
Five pairs of these bones were nodular, in part tuberculated on the 
surface, and in part with flattened articular-looking surfaces, well 
marked in four pairs, very imperfect in one pair. One pair and the 
single bone were flattened, elongated, and uniformly tuberculated, 
without any appearance of an articular surface. 
Thirty-three finger bones were present, and some of the smaller 
phalanges were either unossified or probably missing. 
The comparison which I have so far made of the Bo’ness whale 
with other specimens has been with skeletons admittedly those of 
B. borealis, and obtained in the North Atlantic. But in the hoyden 
Museum is a skeleton brought from the north-west coast of Java, 
named, after Professor Schlegel, Bulmnoptera Schlegelii, which 
Professor Flower, who first described it, regarded as closely allied 
to, if not specifically identical with, B . borealis, though, on account 
of its habitat, he had a difficulty in placing it with borealisd This 
skeleton was more perfectly ossified than in my specirnen, and 
belonged to an animal probably about 45 feet long. I have com- 
pared my skeleton with Professor Flower’s description and figures, 
and with the additional description and .illustrations of its skeleton 
in Pis. XIY. and XV., and on p. 221 of the Osteographie des 
Cetaces, and without doubt the resemblance is in many particulars 
very striking. 
The mandible with its low coronoid process, the profile outline of 
the skull, the flattened stylo-hyals, the general form of the tympanic, 
the cervical vertebrae, the general form of the dorsals and lumbars 
(the latter with their spiculated spines), the scapula, the humerus, 
radius, and ulna, all closely corresponded. The Java specimen 
possessed also fourteen pairs of ribs and fifty-four vertebrae, 
C 7 D 14 L 14 Cd 19 . Professor Flower thinks that three or four 
caudal s are wanting, but Professor Yan Beneden considers only one 
or two are missing. 
1 Proc. Zool. Soc., London, Xov. 8, 1864. 
