said 'no'! Capt. Melvill shot that per- haps it was jelly-fish. This is exactly my own idea. I have examined very carefully the stomachs of several whales which were best in. All were more or less filled with clear green water in which the only solid materials were bits of floating flesh, a little sea weed, and a few water-worm pebbles. There were small masses green of gelatinous material and in the stomach of one whale (which contained little water) there was in the folds of the stomach a considerable amount of which gelatinous material; this looked much like partly digested jelly-fish. This same whale also had several masses six or eight inches long of what looked like raw beef which had been shredded finely but still being together by the fibres; it was certainly not flesh, and did not look like jelly fish. The experiment of all the whales is about the existence of very thick creamy and is slimy green in color. (continued on page 175)