Book contents
- Frontmatter
- DEDICATION
- List of Subscribers
- Letter to the Subscribers
- Preface
- List of Plates
- Contents
- Introduction
- General history of whales
- Natural history of the Balæna Mysticétus
- General remarks on the economy of the whale
- Methods employed to capture the whale
- Early history of the British Whale Fishery
- Probable success of ditto
- Dangers attending ditto
- Natural history of the Balæna Icelandica
- Ditto of the Balænòptera Gibbar
- Ditto of the Balænòptera Acuto-Rostrata
- Ditto of the Balænòptera Jubartes
- Ditto of the Balænòptera Rorqual
- The Anatomy of the Skeleton of the B. Rorqual
- The Natural History of the Monodons
- Ditto Monodon Microcephalus
- The Arnanacus or Anarnak
- Natural History of the Physeter Macrocephalus
- Ditto of the Physeter Cylindricus
- Ditto of the Physeter Microps
- Ditto of the Physeter Mular
- Ditto of the Physeter Bidens Sowerbyi
- Ditto of the Physeter Gibbosa
- Ditto of the Delphinus Phocèana Communis
- Ditto of the Delphinus Didelphis
- Ditto of the Delphinus Orca
- Ditto of the Delphinus Gladiator
- Ditto of the Delphinus Bidentatus
- Ditto of the Delphinus Feres
- Ditto of the Delpinus Tursio
- Ditto of the Hyperöodon Butskopf
- Ditto of the Delphinapterus Beluga
- Concluding observations on the Cetacèa
- The Sea Serpents
- The Sword Fish
- The common Cod Fish
- The Coal Cod Fish
- The Mackerel
- The common Red Surmullet
- Arctic Salmon
- The common Herring
- The Greenland Shark
- The Unctuous Lump Sucker
- Class Crustacea
- Class Molluscæ
- The Asterias or Star Fishes
- Arctic Animalculæ
- Conclusionary Observations
- Letters, Testimonials, &c.
- The Author's Address to the Afflicted Public
- List of the Author's Works
- Frontmatter
- DEDICATION
- List of Subscribers
- Letter to the Subscribers
- Preface
- List of Plates
- Contents
- Introduction
- General history of whales
- Natural history of the Balæna Mysticétus
- General remarks on the economy of the whale
- Methods employed to capture the whale
- Early history of the British Whale Fishery
- Probable success of ditto
- Dangers attending ditto
- Natural history of the Balæna Icelandica
- Ditto of the Balænòptera Gibbar
- Ditto of the Balænòptera Acuto-Rostrata
- Ditto of the Balænòptera Jubartes
- Ditto of the Balænòptera Rorqual
- The Anatomy of the Skeleton of the B. Rorqual
- The Natural History of the Monodons
- Ditto Monodon Microcephalus
- The Arnanacus or Anarnak
- Natural History of the Physeter Macrocephalus
- Ditto of the Physeter Cylindricus
- Ditto of the Physeter Microps
- Ditto of the Physeter Mular
- Ditto of the Physeter Bidens Sowerbyi
- Ditto of the Physeter Gibbosa
- Ditto of the Delphinus Phocèana Communis
- Ditto of the Delphinus Didelphis
- Ditto of the Delphinus Orca
- Ditto of the Delphinus Gladiator
- Ditto of the Delphinus Bidentatus
- Ditto of the Delphinus Feres
- Ditto of the Delpinus Tursio
- Ditto of the Hyperöodon Butskopf
- Ditto of the Delphinapterus Beluga
- Concluding observations on the Cetacèa
- The Sea Serpents
- The Sword Fish
- The common Cod Fish
- The Coal Cod Fish
- The Mackerel
- The common Red Surmullet
- Arctic Salmon
- The common Herring
- The Greenland Shark
- The Unctuous Lump Sucker
- Class Crustacea
- Class Molluscæ
- The Asterias or Star Fishes
- Arctic Animalculæ
- Conclusionary Observations
- Letters, Testimonials, &c.
- The Author's Address to the Afflicted Public
- List of the Author's Works
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- The Natural History of the Order CetaceaAnd the Oceanic Inhabitants of the Arctic Regions, pp. 285 - 289Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014First published in: 1834