then, this same humpbacked whale and the greenland whale, each of these has baleen; but there again the similitude ceases. and it is just the same with the other parts above mentioned. in various sorts of whales, they form such irregular combinations; or, in the case of any one of them detached, such an irregular isolation; as utterly to defy all general methodization formed upon such a basis. on this rock every one of the whale-naturalists has split.