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Hull, surgeon, who was singularly capable of under- 
taking its erection, from the great attention he had paid 
to the anatomy of some other whales, especially to that 
of the tinner and balaena mysticetus. This gentleman 
also possesses much valuable information on the anatomy 
of the junction of the upper part of the trachea with the 
lower portion of the blow-hole in these latter creatures, 
which I was much gratified to find fully confirms the 
statements I have made relative to the non-ejection of 
water from the blow-hole, and with which Mr, Wallis 
fully coincides. I cannot close these few observations 
without embracing the opportunity, now presenting itself, 
of thanking Sir Clifford and Lady Constable for the kind 
assistance which they rendered me, in procuring the 
information I required ; indeed a pleasant rivalry was 
manifested among the scientific gentlemen of Hull, in 
showing and explaining to me all that they knew respect- 
ing the leviathans of the deep, of which the Museum of 
Natural Hi story at Hull can boast of several fine skele- 
tons, particularly of that of a finback of gigantic dimen- 
sions, and which was prepared by Mr. Wallis. They 
have also the skeletons of a bottle-nosed whale, and that 
of a porpoise, besides one of the two-toothed whale, and 
the stuffed integuments of the foetus of a balsena mysti- 
cetus, or Greenland whale. 
The description of the skeleton of the sperm whale at 
Burton-Constable, which I shall presently give, interests 
me exceedingly, principally on account of its being the 
only specimen of the kind in Europe or in the world, 
and also because it will tend to set at rest the various 
