^{page 11 note *} Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxxiv, p. 10, Dec. 1, 1913.

^{page 11 note †} In a recently published memoir Mr Theodore E. Salvesen has described the Whale Fisheries of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies. He enumerates Megaptera, the three species of Balœnoptera referred to in the text, and the Southern Right Whale, Balæna australis, as the baleen whales captured by the whalers. He estimates that nearly 11,000 animals were killed during the season, November 1, 1912, to April 30, 1913. He gives the approximate value of the whalebone and oil from each species respectively, that of the fresh flesh as food, and of the whale guano as a manure. The gross value of these products was about £1,350,000. See Report on Scientific Results of Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, vol. xix., May 12, 1914.

^{page 12 note *} See my memoir on the Rorqual, Lesser in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xix., 1892Google Scholar, in which several specimens are described.

^{page 14 note *} Marine Mammals in the Anatomical Museum, University of Edinburgh, p. 18, 1912.

^{page 14 note †} Well-grown specimens of B. rostrata from 13½ feet and upwards have been recorded. I described an adult female 28 feet 4 inches, the articulated skeleton of which is in the Anatomical Museum of the University. See Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xix., 1892.

^{page 15 note *} Arnold Japha has figured (Spenge's Zoolog. Jahrb., xxxii., 1911) hairs on the chin, lower jaw and upper jaw of fœtus of B. rostrata. W. B. Benham had previously described about 30 hairs on the chin and jaws of a young B. rostrata (Trans. New Zealand Inst., 1901).

^{page 17 note *} In the presence of a low boss-like prominence on the top of the head, in the position of the dorsal fin, and in the form of the pectoral limb the fœtus closely corresponds with the figure of a B. rostrata 15 ft. 4 in. long, in F. W. True's great memoir on the Whalebone Whales of the North Atlantic, Smithsonian Contributions, Washington, 1904.

^{page 18 note *} Trans. Boy. Soc. Edin., vol. xlviii, p. 889, 1913, and Marine Mammals in Anatomical Museum of University, 1912.

^{page 20 note *} See my memoir on the Auditory Organ in the Cetacea, and compare B. australis with the petrous bone in Balænoptera, , Proc. Boy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxxiv, p. 10, 1913.Google Scholar

^{page 21 note *} See my memoir on Balæna biscayensis in Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xlviii., 1913.