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IN a communication made to the Zoological Society on the 20th inst., when describing a specimen of Rudolphi's Rorqual (Balœnoptera borealis), lately captured in the River Crouch, Essex, I said that this was the first well authenticated example of this species taken in British waters. My friend, Mr. J. K. Harting, has kindly called my attention to a paper which had for the time escaped my memory, published by Prof. Turner in the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology for April, 1882, in which a specimen is described which was captured near Bo'ness in the Firth of Forth in September, 1872, and of which the skeleton is now preserved in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh.
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FLOWER, W. Rudolphi's Rorqual. Nature 29, 104 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/029104d0
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