menorales this number 230 had white or gray along its edge. Eighty-one plates only showed no lighter color. Of course these plates were only those which were of commercial value. All the plates are transversely rugose, in proportion to the size of the plate, the ridges being fully as prominent as those of the Finbacks or Blue Whale. As in the two later, the ridges are most prominent in the basal portion of the plate (The wrestles of all these plates were yellowish white except at buths of the plates where the coarse wrestles became grayish or brownish.) Osteology Scapula. The right scapula of this whale was saved, cleaned, measured & photographed. 1 Height (vertical) = 5-75 mil. 2 Greatest breadth = 960 " 3 Length acromion (median) = ##" 260 4 " corocoid " =260" 110 5 Ant. post. length glenoid fora = 200 mil. aeromum 6 Width corocoid = 90 mil. 7 " " corocoid aeromum distally = 40 mil. The scapula is widely fan-shaped. The super-scapular edge is remarkably flat, dipping at a sharp angle to meet and adjoining but a regular the posterior edge which is straight after