46 | 46 |
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|Great Rorqual of | | | | | |
|the Cape | 52 | | | | |
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|3. PHYSETER. | | | | | |
|Sperm Whale or | | | | | |
|Cachalot | 60 | | | | |
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|4. DELPHINUS. | | | | | |
|_D. Delphis_ | 67 | | | | |
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|_D. Delphis._ In | | | | | |
|my museum | | | 81 | | |
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|_D. Delphis._ In | | | | | |
|the Museum of Dr.| | | | | |
|R. Hunter, | | | | | |
|Glasgow | | | | | 90 |
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|_D. Delphis._ | | | | | |
|Dissected by John| | | | | |
|Hunter | | | | 60 | |
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|_D. Phocaena_ | 66 | | 65 | 51 | |
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|_D. Ebsenii._ Van| | | | | |
|Beneden | | | | | 90 |
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In a late number of the 'Bulletins of the Royal Academy of Brussels' I
find some valuable remarks in respect of these points by M. Van Beneden.
He praises, and deservedly, no doubt, the exertions of M. Eschricht to
collect a proper Museum of the Cetacea. It appears, according to M.
Eschricht, that at no age whatever do we find in true whales (meaning, I
presume, the _Mysticetus borealis_ and _australis_) any distinct
vertebrae in the cervical region as in other mammals. A fus