An English Miscellany; Presented to Dr. Furnivall in Honour of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday
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' Being anxious, if possible, to ascertain exactly what the material is, 1 wrote to Professor E. Ray Lankester, ivho very kindly went to the Museum and examined the casket for me. He came to the conclusion that it is the bone of some species of whale, but took a small fragment of the casket bone with him for microscopical examination, the result of which I give in his own -words : — ' A microscopical examination of the bone of the casket proves it to be the bone of a whale. So far as microscopi...c structure goes it might be that of a dugong or a whale. But the plates of bone are too large to have been cut from any bone of the dugong. There are certain highly refractive concentric and radial stripes in the dense matter of the bone of the casket as shown by the microscopic sections under high power, which are characteristic of whale and dugong but are not seen in walrus or any other mammal's bone, so far as I can ascertain. The sections of the casket bone have been compared for me by Dr.
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