Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, beached on a rocky shore. Baleine du Groenland echouee. Woodcut by F. Leblanc after Pierre Lackerbauer from Alfred Fredol’s Le Monde de la Mer, the World of the Sea, edited by Olivier Fredol, Librairie Hachette et. Cie., Paris, 1881. Alfred Fredol was the pseudonym of French zoologist and botanist Alfred Moquin-Tandon, 1804-1863.

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