8 to the anterior edge. Eye. Below eye there are two deep creases. Two creases run out from the anterior corner -- above eye are 4 short, shallow creases and one long deep one. This sketch was made back before head had been cut at and so that it is correct. The iris is brown 32 cent. front 29 cent. Eye opening is 9.5 cent. long The median ridge on top of the head rises gradually from the front, the highest point being directly in front of the anterior ends of the blowholes -- here it was about six inches high. A cross section of the rostrum, taken directly in front of spiracles is like this: The head of Van specimen were all the same. There are low, hardly perceptible ridges which lose them- selves long before reaching snout. As far as could be seen from color & external appearance this specimen differed not at all from the Van. Blue whales. Measurements, see opposite page.