OUR PARIS LETTER.
SIENTIFIC.
FBEtfCH BIOGKAPHICAI Ee^EAECH.— Last year three embryos of the whale, along with a heart and various soft organs of that ceteoean—pieces very rarely met with in European collections—were sent to the Paris Museum of Natural History by M. Juan Foyn; proprietor of the whale fishery of Vadso, on the east coast of Finmark. M. Pouchet has now been charged by the Frenoh Government to go to Vadso and collect national history objects. The advice boat rj Le Ooligny is placed at his disposal; two licentiates in science from Lelle accompany him, and he will be joined by a biologist from , Christiania. The local authorities tare been instructed to forward the aoheme. i The naturalists will investigate the fauna, flora, and rocks oa the banks of the Vasanger Gord, also the maritime fauma of this Gord, situated at the boundary of influences of the Atlantic and the Glacial Sea. The fauua of fresh waters will alio * claim attention.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3941, 16 August 1881, Page 2
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161OUR PARIS LETTER. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3941, 16 August 1881, Page 2
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