Description acceptable. An amateur enthusiast of this scientific field compares his work on it to the unfinished Cathedral of Cologne and mocks the work of William Scoresby. That man concludes two specimens in this field to be “Stoic” and “Platonian” as he studies them while they are tied to his left and right sides. The narrator borrows a bookbinding analogy to develop a classification system of Folio, Octavo, and Duodecimo for this field in a chapter that gives an (*) anti-Linnaean description of their subjects. One example of the subjects studied in this scientific field pursues the main characters in the three-chapter sequence “The Chase.” One of many digressive chapters on this scientific field (-5[1])occurs after Stubb recollects a dream of his captain’s pegleg. (10[1])For 10 points, Ishmael delves into what branch of marine biology in many discursive chapters of Moby-Dick? ■END■ (10[2])