INDEX. Acosta, Joseph de, fable of Indians killing whales, 27, 31, 35, 37, 41, 42 Agaphelidæ, 47 Agaphelus, 80, 104, 105, 270, 287 Agaphelus gibbosus, 47, 56, 104, 105 measurements of, 106 Agaphelus glaucus, 80, 81, 104 Alaska, whales of, 33 Aleutian Islands, whales at the, 33 list of cetaceans of Massachusetts, 58 Amagansett, Long Island, whales sighted off, 63 American cetaceans, first references to, 6 Felt's notes on the, 72 American zoologists, writings of, on whalebone Balana, Flower's remarks on, 63 Brisson, 40 Erxleben, 42 species of, distribution of, 56 Van Beneden on the geographical distribu- Balana albicans, 42 Balana antipodarum, 265 Balana antipodum, 266 Balaena australis, 50, 63, 263, 265, 266 ribs, Gasco's description of, 257 Balana boöps, 41, 46, 51, 61, 243 measurements of the type-skele- ton of, 79 |