from opposite the posterior end of the blow- hole forward almost to tip - The diameter at eyes which is the thinnest point of the whale is 273 [illegible] (straight) The whole head is smooth a little back of eye on top to just to eye on sides. The rest of the body is covered with many broken ridges running nearly parallel - the largest of these ridges are directed obliquely upward - ridges are almost prominent between the eye & corners. On the belly, the ridges are very prominent but are further apart - a low central median ridge runs forward from arms to a point nearly opposite the insertion of the pectoral where it is lost. On the top edge of the peduncle from the humus to the flukes are many bosses & crenulations, such as are found on the Hempback only more prominent irregular - There are two creases on either side a little behind the penis insertion. On lower edge of peduncle, from the posterior edge of its arms a great rounded hunch rises abruptly. This hunch swells outward abruptly just behind arms; it is bounded on either side by a deep depression; the hunch is deficient a