The natural history of the sperm whale ... To which is added, a sketch of a South-Sea whaling voyage. In which the author was personally engaged / By Thomas Beale.

  • Beale, Thomas.
Date:
1839
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Credit: The natural history of the sperm whale ... To which is added, a sketch of a South-Sea whaling voyage. In which the author was personally engaged / By Thomas Beale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Tlie animals which inhabit the sea are much less known to us than those found upon land, and the economy of those with which we are best acquainted is much less understood ; we are therefore too often obliged to reason from analogy where information fails, which must probably eve?' co?itinue to be the case, from our unfit- ness to pursue our researches in the unfathomable w'aters.” John Hu?ite?'. “ What an impenetrable veil covers our knowledge of cetacea ! groping in the dark, we advance in a field strewn with thorns.’’ Lesso?i, “ No branch of zoology is so much involved as that which is entitled cetology/’ Scoi'esby. “ Toutes ces indications incompletes ne servent qu’a mettre les naturalists a la torture.” Cuvie?',
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