. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Gatty Marine Laboratory^ St. Aiidrews. 525 tissues being infiltrated with blood, and with a tendency to rapid putrefaction. The bruise extended from the scapula to the .humerus and the armpit as well as to the hand. The macerated left humerus showed an ovoid depressed surface, 1 inch by half an inch, about an inch from the anterior edge of the head, and somewhat obliquely situated on the front of the bone and near its middle. The only explanation of the injury is that the Flee
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Gatty Marine Laboratory^ St. Aiidrews. 525 tissues being infiltrated with blood, and with a tendency to rapid putrefaction. The bruise extended from the scapula to the .humerus and the armpit as well as to the hand. The macerated left humerus showed an ovoid depressed surface, 1 inch by half an inch, about an inch from the anterior edge of the head, and somewhat obliquely situated on the front of the bone and near its middle. The only explanation of the injury is that the Fleet had been at gun-practice for some time off St. Andrews Bay, and a spent shot or a fragment of a shell may have struck the animal, rendering it more or less helpless on the left side, and causing it to seek the shallow water. Nothing occurred in the stomach except mucus and para- sites, and the same with the Mesoplodon hidens from the ventral surface. In the accompanying sketch (see figure), which has been made from a photograph by A. W. Brown, the left side is presumed to be partly immersed in the wet sand during a shower of rain, but the flipper and right groove (a) on the throat are shown. The latter seems to follow the trend of the mandible, and ceases before reaching the mid-ventral line. Notices of the occurrence of this whale are given in Bell's ' British Quadrupeds' ^ &c., and the skeletons have been dealt with by Sir William Flowxr and Sir William Turner, the latter of whom has kindly promised to look over the bones of this example. 2. On an Abnormal Plaice with a Precaudal Fin-frill on the Left Side. Tl\e publication of my friend Mr. Boulenger's f very inter- esting example of a malformed plaice from the London * Second edition. t Proc. Zool. Soc. 1908, pp, 161-164, text-figs. 28 & Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these il
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