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Basking Shark

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MY notice of Prof. Steenstrup's paper was written in the autumn of 1875, to accompany an electrotype of the woodcut in that paper of the baleen-like fringes of the basking shark, sent to me for NATURE from Copenhagen.

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WEIGHT, E. Basking Shark. Nature 15, 292 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015292b0

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