^{page 508 note *} Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxix., part vii., p. 687.

^{page 508 note †} Vol. i, text, pp. 417 e.s., and vol. ii., plate xxxi., e.s., London, 1878.

^{page 508 note ‡} This specimen had been sent from Calcutta as an exhibit for the London Fisheries Exhibition.

^{page 509 note *} He stated on p. 432 that the length of an aged female was feet, whilst that of his largest male with a mature skeleton was scarcely 7 feet.

^{page 509 note †} The fœtus in utero figured by Anderson in plate xxxi, showed columnar ridges on the gums, marking the outlines of the teeth which had not cut the gums; also a few scattered hairs projecting from the skin of the tip of the jaws.

^{page 510 note *} The humerus of the adult St Andrews specimen showed an interesting pathological condition: the head, with the adjoining part of the shaft, was hollowed into a large cavity, and the articular surface, as well as that of the glenoid cavity, was roughened with bony nodules; possibly the animal had been shot early in its life and a bullet had lodged in the bone and hollowed out the cavity, from which doubtless pus had freely discharged.

^{page 510 note †} “Die Hand der Cetaceen,” Vergleich. anat. Entwick. Untersuch. an Wahltieren, Zweiter Theil, 1893, Jena.

In Eschricht's specimen six carpal bones apparently were present, but no details were given. See Wallich's translation, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., March 1852.

^{page 510 note ‡} See my memoir on Sowerby's whale, Journ. Anat. and Phys., vol. xx., Oct. 1885.

^{page 512 note *} The names given by Anderson to the carpal bones differed from those used in the text. The radiale-carpale is his trapezium, the os centrale his radiale, carpale 2 the trapezoid, carpale 3 the magnum, carpalia 4+5 the cuneiform.

^{page 513 note *} Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., p. 105, pl. 25, Nov. 22, 1866.