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THE scientific heads of the British Museum for many years (just as Dr. R. Knox, Prof. Goodsir, and Principal Sir William Turner did in the northern capital) have devoted much attention to the cetaceans, as seen in Dr. Gray's Catalogue, Sir R. Owen's Kogia, and the important publications of Sir William Flower-to whom the public owe the interesting Whale Gallery at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, with drawings from life by his daughter. It was, however, reserved to the director who has just retired, Sir Sidney Harmer, to systematise the means for obtaining information of all the species-of this most intelligent and interesting as well as much persecuted group-caught or stranded on British shores. In the publication before us he has further added to the indebtedness of the public and men of science by summarising the results of his labours, which, by aid of the officials of the Board of Trade and others, have largely extended our information.
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M., W. Whales and Dolphins1. Nature 119, 687–688 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119687a0
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