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the reader will observe that there is a strong analogy 
among them in the internal arrangement of their organs ; 
as in the stomach, liver, parts of generation in both 
sexes, and also in the kidney, lungs, and brain; and 
where they differ in organic development, the gifted 
author beautifully describes the alteration and its object. 
In fact, as far as I have examined, and I believe that I 
have perused every writer of note on these subjects, there 
is not a paper, or any work onYecord, equal in any de- 
gree to that which was produced by Hunter ; for although 
much, very much, remains to be known of the struc- 
ture and economy of the sperm and other whales, yet 
Hunter threw more light upon those difficult subjects 
during the few years of his observation, than all his 
predecessors or followers, (notwithstanding that a host 
of naturalists have exerted themselves to increase the 
quantity which he left behind him), which will prove a 
never failing monument to his fame, and which some 
of his continental neighbours have found too magnifi- 
cent to publicly perceive. 
I have also availed myself of an original paper by 
Dr. Alderson, read in April 1825, before the Cambridge 
Philosophical Society, on the external form of a sperm 
whale which was thrown ashore at Turnstall in York- 
shire, in the same year, and which also contains de- 
scriptions of some of the internal organs, which I shall 
insert under their proper heads ; and I have added a few 
observations made by Mr. Bennett, before the Zoological 
Society of London, as late as 1837, relative to the eye, 
and some of the teeth of this interesting cetacean. 
