CETACEA. 
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Cetacea. 
'^Gray, J. E. Synopsis of tlie species of Whales and Dolphins 
in the Collection of the British Museum. London : 1868_, 
4to^ pp. lOj, with 38 plates. 
This consists chiefly of a reproduction of the plates of Cetaceans 
figured in the zoological part of the Voyage of the Erebus and . 
Terror/ to which are added plates 31 to 37 of that work, 
hitherto unpublished. Tlic text contains a systematic list of 
the species known ; those figured on pis. 31-37 will be men- 
tioned separately. 
N Dr. J. E. Gray has published a review of the Osteographie 
des C^taces/^ by Van Beneden and Gervais [Zool. Bee. v< 
p. 5, and vi. p. 3], under the title Observations on the Whales 
described in the ^Osteographie^ &c./^ in Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1870, 
vi. pp. 193-204. These remarks refer chiefly to the difference 
of views with regard to the distinetion of the species and genera 
of Right Whales. — Prof, van Beneden, in a reply in Bull. Ac. 
R. Belg. XXX. 1870, pp. 380-388, adheres to the views expressed 
by him in the ^ Osteographie.^ 
n] Dr. J. E. Gray has compiled a list of all the species of 
Cetaceans, and arranged them geographically. Ann. & Mag. 
N. H. 1870, vi. pp. 387-394. 
n/ [Eschricht, D. F.] Ni Tavler til oplysning af Hvaldyrenes 
Bygning, udforte til utrykte foredrag af afdode Etatsraad 
Dr. D. F. Eschricht. Med tilhorende Forklaring. Vidensk. 
Sclsk. Skr. 5, ser. vol ix. Kjobenh. 18G9, pp. 14. 
Nine plates illustrating the structure of various parts of 
Cetaceans were found among the literary matter left by Prof. 
Eschricht at his death. Professors Steenstrup and Reinhardt 
proposed to the Copenhagen Academy of Sciences to publish 
them, with explanations prepared by the latter. This has been 
done in the Transactions of that Academy. The subjects 
figured will be mentioned under the species to which they refer. 
\IVan Beneden, P. J. Les C^taces, leurs Commensaux et leurs 
Parasites. Bull. Ac. R. Belg. xxix. 1870, pp. 347-368,, with’ 
woodcuts. 
We refer to Zool. Rec. vi. p. 126, for Prof, van Beneden^s 
memoir on this subject generally. 
\/ Owen, R. Monograph of the British fossil Cetacea from the 
Red Crag. 1. Genus Zrphius. Printed for the Palfconto- 
graphical Society. London : 1870, 4to, pp. 40, plates 1-5. 
Although the object of this memoir is the determination and 
description of extinct species, it is of no less importance to the 
zoologist than to the palaeontologist. In fact, the author bases 
his researches entirely on a previous comparative account of the 
