That we have within us today the largest mammal that ever existed on the earth or in its waters is perhaps to most of us a fact now [illegible] known. Not even the largest of the giant reptiles, to Dinosaurs, which splashed along the rocky borders of inland seas three hundred million years ago, could match the colossal bulk of a blue-finned ton where great numbers of which are taken on both coasts of North America. Although for more than a tousand years the history of these great mammals has been woven into the sea-going annals of the maritime nations of the world, yet today their habits & specific relat ionships are being to be known. It is believed that whales differ from land mammals, for in structure & functions of life they bear no close resemblance yet from what particular group they designated is uncertain. Like the mammals of old earth they that bring forth their young alive, more than 1 from a considerable this without milk from their own bodies, and breathe air by means of lungs. When a whale comes to surface his first act is to expell the air from his lungs