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Show no WHALES OF WORLD FAST DISAPPEARING I UONDON. Dec. 9. If the killing of! whales continues at the present rate they will be exterminated before; another decadfer, Is the warning given by Sir Sidney j. Harmcr, F. R. g., director of the natural history department depart-ment of the British museum. Recent' investigations carried out In the whaling whal-ing areas has revealed this alarming! Condition, Q0 says. The whaling industry has survived since tho time of Alfred the Great, , dc pits tho fact that there has never been a year known when scores of boats did not leave the ports of ICng-l.ind. ICng-l.ind. France, Spain and Scandinavia to hunt the sea animals. Sir Sidney ip ! : n . i m i r, ! , in ivh Irli he urged legislation against further hunting of whales. The Greenland variety of the whale Is already thought to bo extinct, and the hunting of the last few years has been confined almost entirely to tho southern seas. The profits derived from the killing of these cataceans are enormous, and they Increase yearly as the retail price of the oil and bone increases A fair sized whale has a ton of whalebone in Its mOUth, which alone is worth $10.00,0. it also produced about thirty tons of oil worth about Sinn a ton In the season of 1015.-16 the oil produc tion from Antarctic whaling stations i was Col, 000 barrels, or about 94,000 tons. During the war IMs oil was recognized recog-nized a3 of vital Importance in tnc manufacture of nltro-glycerlne- It is no wused in the making of soap. Tho principal whales caught today are a species of rorquals. or fin-whales; fin-whales; the blue whale, and the sperm whale. The latter, the hunting of which is principally confined to Amor-leans, Amor-leans, not only give sperm oil, but often contain ambergris, which is sold al $'J0 an ounce and used in tho perfumery per-fumery trade. The oil used for lubricating lubri-cating the wheels of wat( lies comes from the dolphin, and is the fin est oil known. fin |