pectacles for evolutionary reason of allowing cat the swell of its body at that place. The folds do not divide to a [illegible] great extent - only a comparatively few - they expand of course both at beginning and end. The folds lie flat on top with rounded edges - 2 furrows run up over the crest. If the feature on the right side, Bottoms of furrows are of same color as tops + finely eroded slim. Just it is expanding twice. The tongue of these whales extends clear to the tip of its lower jaws & completely fills the space between the ramit of the mandible. This whale was lying on itself with its mouth slightly open, and I crawled well inside thus getting a good opportunity to see how it lives in life. It is a coarse flabby mass of blubber + flesh & when taken out takes no definite shape whatever - it simply lies flat on the slip. The skin which covers it is slate-blue in color & does like nothing so much as some coarse crepu paper, it is thus far very elasticly can be pulled into almost any shape! On its mouth the tongue is held in a shape by the