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Transcription
As the skeleton is now exhibited it
is as follows:
Everything is from the original
whale except - the ribs - the phalanges,
the dermatus, & the pelvici bones.
Skull (I took these measure myself)
from the cleaned skeleton
Length (condyles to tip straight below) : 600
Breadth (squamosal) greatest = 290
Length rostrem (from proximal end
of maxilla) straight = 500
Length nasals (median)
= 35.
" mandibles (straight)
= 580
" " (curved)
= 575.
Depth " at center
= 45,
" " " coronoid (straight) = 80
Width orbital process of frontal, = 30
" of squamosal = 120
" of rostrem at middle (straight): 170
Depth of skull vertex to lower edges
pterygoids = 110
Scapula Height: 91 Breadth: 150 Length across (lower
edge) : 45. Length coronoid (lower edge) = 281 Breadth g.f.
Length skeleton (as mounted) = 2370
Radius length = 105 - breadth distally = 33 - Length ulna: 99
breadth ulna distally : 24 Length humerus : 68
Length 1st rib: 150 straight
" " " (curved) : 170
Breadth " " (distally) : 18