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MANY readers of NATURE may have heard an incredible story, broadcast by the B.B.C., Regional, on January 11, 1938, in a series of talks called “Strange to Relate”, about an alleged James Bartley of the Star of the East having been swallowed by a sperm whale and recovered alive from its stomach some hours after. The intelligence of readers of NATURE is such that I expect and hope few if any gave credence to the story, but of the thousands who heard it I fear many must have thought, “It must be true, or the B.B.C. would not broadcast it”.
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ACKERMANN, A. A Whale Story. Nature 141, 752–753 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141752b0
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