History And Description Of The Skeleton Of A New Sperm Whale Lately Set Up In The Australian Museum By Ws Wall Curator Together With Some Account Of A New Genus Of Sperm Whales Called Euphysetes Two Plates By Ws Macleay Reprinted From The Edition Of 1581

Author : William S. Wall
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266996095
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book History and Description of the Skeleton of a New Sperm Whale written by William S. Wall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History and Description of the Skeleton of a New Sperm Whale: Lately Set Up in the Australian Museum Beale's Yorkshire skeleton has, as before mentioned, a skull eighteen feet and half an inch long, while the extreme width of it was measured by him to be eight feet four inches. Now, according to this proportion, the Sydney skull, nine feet six inches long, ought to have a breadth of only four feet four and a-half inches, whereas its actual breadth is five feet four inches. In other words, in the Sydney animal, the head is nearly one-fifth its whole width broader than the Yorkshire cachalot, which at the same time, as was before shown, has proportionally a longer head. As might have been expected from the foregoing remarks, the Sydney skeleton has a pro portionally shorter under jaw; for comparing the length of the Yorkshire skull with that of its under jaw, we find that the Sydney under jaw, ought, in like manner, to be eight feet ten inches long, whereas, it is only seven feet eight inches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.