REPORT

of the

SCIENTIFIC RESULTS

of the
  
 VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER
DURING THE YEARS 1873-76

under the command of
 Captain GEORGE S. NARES, R.N. F.R.S.

and the late
Captain FRANK TOURLE THOMSON, R.N.

Prepared under the Superintendence of

Sir. C. WYVILLE THOMSON, Knt., F.R.S., &c.

Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh
Director of the Civilian Scientific Staff on board


ZOOLOGY Part IV

1881
 
 Report on the Bones of Cetacea collected during the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger i the Years
1873-1876.


by

  William Kitchen Parker, F.R.S.,

(Received August 2, 1879)


45 pp. Illustrated with 3 plates.

This Report is bound in the H.M.S. Challenger Reports, Zoology Volume 1, 1881.

This electronic edition prepared by Dr. David C. Bossard
from original documents in the library holdings of
Dartmouth College, Hanover New Hampshire.

June, 2004.

Copyright © 2004 by David C. Bossard.




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Mesoplodon layardi Immature Specimen, 1/4 size
Plate I, Figures 1,2



A high resolution  (800 ppi) world map showing the H.M.S. Challenger Track and Sounding Stations
is available here in three sections.
From Zoology Volume LIII, 1887.

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Middle Map

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION  1   001  002  003  004  005  006  007  008  009  010  011  012  013  014  015  016  017  018  019  020  021  022  023  024  025  026  027  028  029  030  031  032

Cetacean Bones Dredged from the Bed of the Ocean (Plate II)  33   033  034  035  036  037  038  039  040  041  042  043

Explanation of the Plates  44   044  045




PLATES.

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01 I


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02 II


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03 III


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