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1908-9.] The Skeleton of a Sowerby’s Whale. 
taken in Shetland in February 1895,* was 5 feet 8 inches long. The 
smaller specimen was not adult, as the epiphyses were only partially 
ossified, but in the longer animal the radial and ulnar epiphyses were 
ossified, though not fused with the shafts. The hand was pentadactylous. 
The procarpus consisted of an osseous radiale 15 mm. wide, an inter- 
medium 20 mm. wide, and an ulnare 16 mm. wide in the longer, though 
with smaller osseous nodules and more cartilage in the younger animal. 
The radiale articulated witli radius, intermedium, carpale x and C 2 ; the 
intermedium with radius, ulna, radiale, ulnare and two distal carpalia. The 
ulnare articulated with ulna, intermedium, a third carpale and metacarpaly. 
Fig. 4. — Dorsal surface, right manus, Delphinus delphis. 
Only three bones were present in the distal row. At the radial end of 
this row was the bone which I have designated carpale 1 , though some writers 
regard it as the metacarpal of the pollex. In the older animal it was 9 mm. 
in transverse diameter and articulated with radiale, largely with metacarpah 
and slightly with metacarpahi ; it obviously belonged to the pollex. The 
bone next to it I name carpale 2 ; it was 13 mm. wide and articulated with 
radiale, intermedium, largely with M n and slightly with M m ; it belonged to 
the index digit, and may be regarded therefore as carpale 2 . The third bone 
in the row, 13 mm. wide, probably represented two carpalia ; it articulated 
with intermedium, ulnare, and in almost equal proportions with M m and 
M IV ; it seemed to belong, therefore, to both medius and annularis, and was 
probably formed by the fusion of carpalia 3 and 4 . No other osseous 
* I am indebted to Mr Thos. Anderson of Hillswick for this specimen. 
