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Show 332 MR. R. BROWN ON THE MAMMALS OF GREENLAND. [May 28, * companied the Swedish Expedition of Otto Torell to Spitzbergen He has added, incidentally, not a little to our knowledge; but his treatise is mostly a compilation, and, not looking upon the arctic fauna in a comprehensive view, he has fallen into many errors in zoogeography. For instance, I cannot uLderstand why he has excluded Balanoptera gigas, Eschr., and B. rostrata, Fab., from the Spitzbergen fauna, nor still less why Baleena mysticetus, Linn., is not classed among the Mammals of the seas around. This last is assuredly found there. In Smeerenberg Bay the Dutch used to catch it in abundance, and even erected boiling-houses on shore to " try " out its oil; and the two former are also found there. Indeed nearly all of the Greenland marine Mammalia are also found in Spitzbergen ; and certainly Dr. Malmgren's stay was much too short to allow him to come to any decision on the matter. Eschricht and J. T. Reinhardt's memoirs on the Greenland Whalef have added directly to our knowledge ; while the numerous papers and catalogues of Gray J and Lilljeborg § on the British and Scandinavian Cetacea (most of which are also found in Greenland) have helped us to a right understanding of that order. Nilsson has disentangled the northern Pinnipedia in his History of Scandinavian Mammals ||; and so has Gray*-f[ and, more closely relating to Greenland, Fabricius**, in a supplementary paper to his Fauna, and Dr. Wallace in the short abstract of one read before the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh ff, on those killed by the northern Seal-hunters. But nearly all of these papers are only local, or relate merely to questions of specific distinctions and synonyms, and touch but lightly upon the Seals either as animals of Greenland, or on their migrations from one part of the Arctic regions to another. Our own Arctic Expeditions halting little, if at all, on the Greenland coast, and many of them being unprovided with competent naturalists, have added almost nothing to our knowledge of the Arctic or Greenland Mammals ; but the American Expeditions to Smith's Sound, under Drs. Kane J % and Hayes §§, have supplied us with many interesting notes on the range and habits of species. I wish I could say the same for all the describers of their collections. Professor * Svenska Expeditionen till Spetsbergen ar 1861, under ledning af Otto Torell- ur detagarnes Anteckningar och andra handlingar skildrad af K. Cheyde-nius (Stockholm, 1865). Vide the account of the Walrus in that work, pp. 168- 183 (with plate and woodcut), the excellent figures of Nabbhralar {Hyperoodon butzkopf, Lacep.) facing p. 480, &c. t Bay Society's Memoirs on the Cetacea, 1866. | Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum, 1866; and Proceedings of the Zoological Society, and Annals of Nat, Hist., passim. % Bay Soc. Mem. Cet. || Skandinavisk Fauna, Forsta Delen, Daggactjuren, pp. 268-326 (1847), also translated in Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte, Bd. vii. &c. If Lib. et locc. citt. ** Naturhistoriske Selskabets Skrivter, Bd. i. tt Proceedings of the Eoyal Physical Society of Edinb. 1862-63. \\ Arctic Explorations, 2 vols. 1855. §§ Voyage towards the open Polar Sea (made in 1860), 1867. |