4. Additional Notes on the Occurrence of the Sperm-Whale in the Scottish Seas
In a communication made to this Society on the 6th February, 1871, I noted the capture of a sperm-whale at Oban in May, 1829, and I collected from various sources records of the stranding of seven additional specimens on the Scottish coasts. Since that communication was published, a large sperm-whal...
| Published in: | Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1872
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0370164600042772 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0370164600042772 |
| Summary: | In a communication made to this Society on the 6th February, 1871, I noted the capture of a sperm-whale at Oban in May, 1829, and I collected from various sources records of the stranding of seven additional specimens on the Scottish coasts. Since that communication was published, a large sperm-whale has come ashore on the west coast of the Isle of Skye, some particulars concerning which I propose to relate in this communication. Tourists in Skye, during the past autumn, who visited Loch Corruisk by boat from Torrin, as they sailed up Loch Scavaig, became conscious, by another sense than that of sight, that a large animal in a state of putrefaction was in their immediate vicinity. |
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