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II.—Observations on the Auditory Organ in the Cetacea

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Early in September of this year I received from the Falkland Islands a box, dispatched by Mr G. Millen Coughtrey, a former student of the University, now an employé in the New Zealand Whaling Company. It contained a number of specimens which illustrated the anatomy of the auditory apparatus in the Cetacea. The whales were caught in the South Atlantic, mostly at South Shetland, though some were from Graham's Land, at which place he had been whaling last season.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1914

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page 1 note * Gray, Robert, “Auricular Opening and External Auditory Meatus in Balœna mysticetus,” Journal Anat. and Phys., vol. xxiii., 1889.Google Scholar

page 10 note † Physiological Illustrations of the Organ of Hearing, London, 1828. Hull at that time was the great shipping port of the whaling industry.

page 11 note * Trans. Roy. Soc. London, 1867.

page 11 note † Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 769, 1910, with figures and plate.

page 13 note * Anatomy of the Humpbacked Whale, Edinburgh, 1889.

page 13 note † Account of the great Finner Whale, stranded at Longniddry, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxvi., 1870.

page 14 note * Catalogue, p. 58 (C. Bpt., 5). I described a Scottish specimen in Journ. Anat. and Phys., April, 1882.

page 14 note † The Marine Mammals in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh, London, 1912; also “The Right Whale of the North Atlantic (Balæna biscayensis)” in Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xlviii. part 4, 1913.

page 14 note ‡ The University Museum now contains eighteen tympanic bones of Sibbald's Whale.

page 16 note * Marine Mammals, op. cit. pp. 20, 74.

page 16 note † The anterior and posterior pedicles in Balœnoptera rostrata were thin plates of bone and were very easily fractured.

page 16 note ‡ Catalogue of Anatomical Preparations of the Whale, Edinburgh, 1838.

page 17 note * I have figured in Marine Mammals a similar sac in Hyperoodon.

page 18 note * Knox, Catalogue, pp. 14, 21, who named the species Balœna maximus borealis and minimus; Carte and Macalister, op. cit.; Dwight in Memoirs of Boston Society of Nat. Hist., vol. ii. ; Lillie, , Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1910Google Scholar; Turner in Marine Mammals and in Memoir on Balœna biscayensis, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xlviii., 1913.

page 19 note * See the figures in my Memoir on the North Atlantic Balœna biscayensis, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., 1913.

page 19 note † Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. ix. p. 103, 1876.

page 20 note * “On Fishes,” p. 45, Edinburgh, 1785.

page 20 note † Die Gehörwerkzeuge der Cetaceen, Tübingen, 1836. Die Cetaceen, Stuttgart, 1837.

page 20 note ‡ Physiologische Bemerkungen üher das Gehörorgan der Cetaceen, Kiel, 1858.

page 21 note * Op. cit.

page 21 note † Ueber das Gehörorgan der Cetaceen, Kiel, 1858.