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indicated by the proprietor, Jesse W. Parker, since the water concealed 
it from view. It would appear to extend very nearly across the creek, 
and have a length of 50 to 60 feet. Some of the vertebrae eould be dis- 
tinguished by feeling with a rod. When the waters are low towards the 
end of the summer, its length is exposed, and it can be used as a foot log 
by the traveller. The only notice of this fossil is that given by Timothy 
A. Conrad in the ‘‘Miocene Shells of North America.” Outlie 
bank near the this skeleton were four portions of the skeleton of an adult 
tinner whale of some sixty feet in length. 
Prof. Kerr, director of the survey, succeeded in obtaining one or two 
of the lumbosacral vertebrae of the specimen, which is above noticed. 
These were submitted to me at Raleigh. They belong to a right whale,, 
or one nearer to Balaena than Balaenoptera. They are in fact identical 
in character with those of the species Mesoteras kerrianus, and belong 
probably to it. The following is a description of one of them from the 
posterior dorsal anterior lumbar region. 
Median line below, obtusely keeled, sides a little concave. Articular 
face with a large median elevated area, which is coarsely obsoletely 
rugose ; the marginal area exhibits tine concentric rugosities. 
Measurements. 
Inches, 
Length centrum, 
7 
U 
basis of diapophysis,- 
4.5 
Depth 
a u 
3.25 
U 
articular face, 
8.5 
Width 
U iC 
9 
Thickness of epiphysis, 
0.75 
The epiphyses are free and the individual is young. A vertebraof simi- 
lai character to, and rather larger size than any here described, was 
obtaiued by the writer near Nahunta, Wayne county, N. C. The species 
would not appear to be rare. 
This whale is named for Prof W. C. Kerr, of Raleigh, who has vital- 
ized the State Survey and is prosecuting it with great advantage to all 
the branches of science that lie within its scope. 
Balaenopteea sp. Otolites of whale. Emmon’s N. C. Geol. Sur- 
vey, 1S56, 205 fig, 27, 
Delpiiinapterus okcinus. Cope, sp. nov. 
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