[Journals], 1908-1912
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Measurements of No 59 Total Length (by cutters) = 30' Flukes tip to tip = 8'-11" Notch to humip (center) = 14'-1" " " arms = - Height humips = 7" Et. of head to eye (straight) = 7'-10" " " " cor. 7 months = 6'-5" Tip mandible & " " = 4'-4" Eye to blowhole = 7'-6" Blushle (center) to tip of mandible closed = 3'-1" Length blowhole (straight) = 10" Blowhole anguler Fin tip to head humerus = 8'-6" " " breadth = 1'-7" No 60 Sperm ♀ July 29/10 Aikawa Japan This whale contained foetus no 60a. Color General color slate. The light gray color is in bands about 2 inches wide which run from genitalia's lower sides forward: then the sides go half way to pectorals and on these sides those bands end in a mass of fine dots which reach nearly to the pectorals and give a "jeffer salt" effect. The band on the ventral surface run from the genitalia to the navel coming together there in a point. These bands give a peculiar striped