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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (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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infuwi) Tin: would I'oit riii: .u/'na.t.i/ -jii llii'in was also sliippcil a klllcf ^kclclun wliich had lic;'ii taken in Korea ami I);-esente(; 1)\ llie wlialiiii coinijaiiy with the olliei- iiialeriak Tlie Museum was desirous of seeurinu-a kar^e >;>enii wliak-aiid with this fiid in \ iew I Weill lo the station at Aikaw ahaina, tln-ee hnii(h-eil niik'- iiofth of ^'okohallla. Ilei'e I feinained foi- inofe than thfee months uoinu' out on the whahni;- ships and stiidyiui;- the diU'erenl specimens as tliey wefe ln-oiliiht in. I'"onf s;)eeies of kari;'e wliak's wefe taken and thefe wcfe e\eep- tional opportunities to olitain \ahialih' scientilie (kata, hut althouL;ii some tweKc s))ei'm whah's had keen kilk^k none were oxer !7 feet in k'Hi^th. I had ahnost (k's;)aii'ed when hnally ('a;)tain k't-eil Olseii of the whak'^hip
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Two ol' llic 27 cases ot whale skelciDiis lidiii .l;i;i;in. The larger erate has a space nuasureineiit of 2() tons aiul coiitaiiis a sperm wh:.le wliicli yicldrd _'() hacrels of spermaceti Hekkusu Maru kroui^liT in a specimen (iO feet loiiu' and fortunately none of tile hones had keen lirokeii ky the four harpoons used in tlie capture. Diirini;- the time spent at this station, a linl)ack wliak- 70 feet in k'liuth and also ten i^orpoises of four diiVereiit species were secured, out' f which is apparently new to science. After c()iisi(leral)le (liflicuitx tiie enormous crates eontainiim the skulls and hones of the whales were transported to a village some tweKc miles away, loaded onto a Nipi)on 'S'uscn Kaisha liner and sent to Yokohama, thence heinj,^ shipped direct to .\ew 'S ork 1)\ the steamship \\"elsli Prince. The courtesy shown to me as a representati\-e of the Amei'ieaii Museum

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