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the Norwegian research steamer “Michael Sars“ has mentioned 
similar marks, which he saw on a sperm whale after it was killed 
in August 1903 and towed in to the whaling-station of Mjofifjdrdr 
on the east coast of Iceland. He speaks of “marks which clearly 
evidenced as to the resistance made by the squid against being 
eaten; numerous impressions of its suckers were present around 
the whale’s mouth — such marks as the Prince of Monaco also 
speaks of regarding the sperm whale he caught on his expedition 
in 1895 — indeed, the lower jaw was completely covered with 
such marks, the largest of which measured 27 mm. in diameter. ^)“ 
In the excellent work “The Depths of the Ocean“ Johan 
Hjort mentions the same sperm whale and likewise interprets the 
circular impressions around the mouth of the whale as being pro- 
duced by the suckers of a giant squid “). 
A drawing of a piece of the skin of the whale, bearing these 
marks, is reproduced in Hjort’s book (fig. 486). Mr. Koefoed 
photographed the same object, and upon request has kindly lent 
me the negative, a part of which is reproduced in my figs. 8 and 
9. No one can possibly be blind to the striking resemblance of 
the photographic reproduction to Fjelstrup’s drawings of the “Pore 
Figures“. 
') Naturen, 1905, p. 56. 
-) The Depths of the Ocean, by Sir John Murray and Dr. J o h a n Hjort, 
1912, p. 651. 
2.—12.—1915. 
