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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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AMERICAN MUSEUM WHALE COLLECTION 283 can be "flensed" in twenty minutes. The body is then turned over by means of the "canting winch," the other side denuded of its blubber covering, and the viscera removed. The whale is hauled to the "carcass platform," the flesh stripped off, the skeleton disarticulated and the bones chopped in pieces. While this work is going on, an oppor- tunity is given the naturalist to secure valuable observations upon the skeleton as the bones lie in position — if he be not afraid of blood and grease. The exami- nation of fresh specimens is the only way in which many disputed points in the osteology of the large whales can ever be settled, for after the skeletons have been disarticulated the smaller bones are almost in\'ariably lost in the tons of flesh with which the skeleton is covered. Before 1864 when the invention of the harpoon gun by Svend Foyn made the shore station possible, dead whales which had been cast upon the coast were almost the only ones which ever came under the observation of a trained ob-
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Towing a white whale to the beach. This animal had just been killed from a canoe and is being towed to the beach where its skeleton^'was removed for the Museum

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1914
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  • bookdecade:c190
  • bookcentury:c100
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:343
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