Apologies if this is a repeat of a prior alert. 

As many of you know, Dr. Sherrie Eldridge and colleagues undertook a remarkable study of somatosensory innervation in the skin of humpback whales when a PhD student at U Mass Dartmouth, USA. There is a posthumous publication reporting some of that work, https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24856. She had delayed publication of her dissertation until it was published as papers. I was thrilled to find that her thesis is now available online. https://repository.lib.umassd.edu/view/pdfCoverPage?instCode=01MA_DM_INST&filePid=13155715160001301&download=true

Title: Somatosensory innervation in the aquatically-adapted skin of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae): a dissertation in Marine Science and Technology : Living Marine Resources Science and Management. 

Michael Moore
Emeritus Research Scholar
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
mmoore@whoi.edu