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THE

NATURAL HISTORY

OF THE

ORDER CETACEA,

AND THE

OCEANIC INHABITANTS

OF THE

ARCTIC REGIONS.

BY HENRY WILLIAM DEWHURST, Esq.,
Surgeon-Accoucheur,

Professor of Natural History, Human, Veterinary, and Zoological Anatomy; Fellow of the West.
minster Medical, Royal Jennerian, and London Vaccine Societies; Corresponding Member of the
Worcestershire Natural History Society, Honorary Member of the London Veterinary Society;
Author of a Dictionary of Anatomy, Guide to Phrenology, Dissertation on the Component
Parts of an Animal Body, Essays on the Zoology of Man and the Study of Natural History,
Lectures on Pathological Anatomy, and the Architecture of the Human Body; Practical
Remarks on the New improved System of Warming Dwelling-Houses and Cathedrals with
Hot Water, &c.; and of numerous papers on Natural History, Mental Philosophy, &c., in
the Scientific and Literary Journals, &c.

"And ELOHIM created great Whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abun-
dantly after their kind, and ELOHIM saw that it was good."-Genesis i. ver. 21.

"The works of the Lord are wonderful and glorious; his righteousness endureth for ever, and he hath made his
wonderful works to be remembered." Ps. cxi. 24.

"He, who does not make himself acquainted with GoD, from the consideration of Nature, will scarcely acquire
knowledge of him from any other source; for if we have not faith in the things which are seen, how shall we believe
those things which are not seen?"-Linnæus.

ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS LITHOGRAPHIC
AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS.

London:

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR,

16, WILLIAM STREET,

WATERLOO BRIDGE ROAD.

MDCCCXXXIV.

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