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IN 1953, Dr. Robert Clarke while on board the whaling factory ship Southern Harvester found inside a sperm whale a boulder of ambergris weighing 926 lb.1. Through the kindness of the owners, Messrs. Chr. Salvesen and Co., of Leith, six samples were taken from places in the boulder, the positions being marked on Figs. 1 and 2, which are reproduced by kind permission of Messrs. Salvesen. These samples were brought to the Laboratory of the Government Chemist by Dr. Robert Clarke, of the National Institute of Oceanography for examination for the main constituents, in the hope that the results would throw light on the mode of formation of ambergris.
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BAYNES-COPE, A. Analyses of Samples of Ambergris. Nature 193, 978–979 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/193978a0
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