Excerpt from The Annals of Scottish Natural History: A Quarterly Magazine With Which Is Incorporated "the Scottish Naturalist" The bones, roughly divested of the flesh, were forwarded to Edinburgh, and have been prepared in the Natural History workshop of the museum. Unfortunately, the hyoid and pelvic bones were found to be missing, while the sternum was slightly injured; otherwise the skeleton is perfect. It is now exhibited in the Mammalian collection of the Museum. The specimen when recent measured, according to Mr. Service, 8 feet in length, but the length of the mounted skeleton is only 7 feet 5 inches; the difference being due to the shrinkage of the intervertebral disks in drying, as well as to the fact that the caudal termination of the vertebral column does not reach quite to the posterior margin of the tail flap. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.