IV. Observations on the Structure of the different Cavities , which 
constitute the Stomach of the Whale , compared with those of 
rummating Animals , with a View to ascertain the Situation 
of the digestive Organ . By Everard Home, Esq. F. R . S . 
Read February 12, 1807. 
The following observations are in some measure a conti- 
nuation of those upon the stomachs of ruminating animals 
contained in a former Paper. They are intended to show that 
the stomach of the whale forms a link in the gradation to- 
wards the stomachs of truly carnivorous animals. 
This subject was brought under my consideration by the 
following circumstances. While at Worthing, on the Sussex 
coast, in the month of August last, a Delphinus Delphis of 
Linnaeus, or small bottle-nose whale of Mr. Hunter, was 
brought on shore by the fishermen alive. I immediately 
purchased it, with a view of enriching the Hunterian col- 
lection with the skeleton, and other parts of its structure. 
The stomach was the particular object of my own attention; 
for, having been so lately employed in considering the sto- 
machs of ruminating animals, I was pleased with an oppor- 
tunity of examining in a recent state the stomach of one of 
the whale tribe, to which the porpoise belongs, with a view 
to ascertain more accurately than had been hitherto done, the 
real resemblance between its structure, and that of the sto- 
machs of ruminating animals. 
