The Centipede-Whale
Abstract
THE ``Scolopendrous Millipede,'' which forms the subject for the epigrams of Theodoridas and Antipater, and to which Mr. W. F. Sinclair kindly called my attention (NATURE, vol. lvi. p. 470), seems to mean a being quite different from the ``Centipede-Whale'' which Ælian and Kaibara describe (see my letter, ibid., p. 445); for the former apparently points to a huge skeleton of some marine animal, while the latter is an erroneous but vivid portrait of an animal actively swimming with numerous fins.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- October 1898
- DOI:
- 10.1038/058570c0
- Bibcode:
- 1898Natur..58..570M