Chapter I: Literature on the Subject

An asterisk (*), placed before the works, mentioned in the list, signifies that the author has had no opportunity to consult them.

1555.--=Olaus Magnus.= Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus,
earumque diversis statibus, conditionibus, etc., etc. Romae, 1555, p.
771.

*1556.--=Olaus Magnus.= Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, etc.,
etc., (Editio nec Romae nec Basileae).

1560.--=Gesner.= Nomenclator aquatilium animantium (= Historia
animalium liber IV), Tiguri, 1560, p. 93, 94.

1567.--=Olaus Magnus.= Historia de gentium septentrionalium variis
conditionibus statibusve, etc., etc., Basileae, 1567, p. 799.

*1608.--=Edward Topsell.= The history of serpents, or the second
booke of living creatures. With wood cuts in-fol. London, 1608, (315
pag.).

1640.--=Aldrovandus.= Serpentum et draconum historiae libri duo.
Bononiae, 1640, p. 58, 59, 296.

1653.--=Jonston.= Historiae naturalis de piscibus et cetis libri V,
et de serpentibus et draconibus libri II. Francofurti, 1653.

1657.--=Jonston.= Historiae naturalis de piscibus et cetis libri V,
et de serpentibus et draconibus libri II, Amstelodami, 1657.

1660.--=Jonston.= Naeukeurige beschrijving van de natuur der vissen
en der slangen en draken. Amsterdam, 1660. Deel II en IV.

*1665.--=Jonston.= Historiae naturalis de piscibus et cetis libri V,
et de serpentibus et draconibus libri II, Amstelodami, 1665.

1667.--=Milton.= Paradise Lost. I, 192-208.

1668.--=Charleton.= Onomasticon zoicon. Londini, 1668. p. 34.

*1670.--=Berndsen.= Danmarks og Norges fruchtbare Herlighed, 1670?

1674.--=Adam Olearius.= Gottorfische Kunstkammer. Schleswig, 1674.

*1690.--=Ramus.= Norges Beskrivelse, 1690?

1718.--=Jonston.= Theatrum universale omnium animalium, Amstelaedami.
Edidit =Ruysch=. 1718.

*1722.--=Jean Baptiste Labat.= Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de
l’Amérique, contenant l’histoire naturelle de ces pays, etc. 6 Vols.
Paris, Giffard, 1722. 12^o.

1724.--=Jean Baptiste Labat.= Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de l’Amérique,
contenant l’histoire naturelle de ces pays, etc. 6 Vols. La Haye,
1724.

1725.--=Père Labat.= Nieuwe reizen naar de franse eilanden van
Amerika: In ’t Nederlandsch in ’t ligt gebracht door =W. C. Dijks=.
Amsterdam, 1725, Vol. IV. P. I. p. 43.--Vol. IV. P. II. p. 105.

*1730.--=P. Dass.= Beskrivelse over Nordland. 1730?

*1740.--=Hans Egede.= (A Full and Particular Relation of his Voyage
to Greenland, as a Missionary, in the year 1734, printed in Danish
at) Kjoebenhavn, 1740.

*1740.--=Hans Egede.= Ausführliche und Wahrhafte Nachricht vom
Anfange und Fortgange der Groenländischen Mission, etc. Hamburg,
1740. 4^o.

1741.--=Paul Egede.= Continuation af Relationerne betreffende den
Groenlanske Mission, Tilstand og Beskaffenhed, Kjoebenhavn, 1741.

*1741.--=Paul Egede.= Fortgesetzte Relationen die Groenländische
Mission betreffend; Kopenhagen, 1741.

1741.--=Hans Egede.= Det gamle Groenlands nye Perlustration.
Kjoebenhavn, 1741.

1742.--=Hans Egede.= Des alten Groenlands neue Perlustration.
Copenhagen, 1742.

*1742.--=Paul Egede.= Journal of the mission to Greenland, 2^d. Vol.
London, 1742. (The first Vol. by =Hans Egede=, and the third Vol. by
=Niels Egede= do not contain anything about the subject.)

*1742.--=Labat.= Nouveau Voyage aux Isles françaises de l’Amérique,
VII, p. 341. Paris, 1742.

1742.--=Charles Owen.= An Essay towards a Natural History of
Serpents. London, John Gray, 1742.

*1743?--=Paul Egede.= Efterretninger om Grönland. Kjöbenhavn, 1743?
p. 45-46.

*1745.--=Hans Egede.= A description of Greenland. London. 1745.

1746--=Hans Egede.= Beschrijving van Oud Groenland, Delft, 1746.

*1753--=Eric Pontoppidan.= Det förste Forsög paa Norges natuurlige
Historie. Kjoebenhavn, 2^d. Vol. 1753.

1754.--=Erich Pontoppidan.= Versuch einer natuerlichen Historie von
Norwegen, 2^d. Vol. Cap. VIII. § 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Kopenhagen, 1754.

1755.--=Eric Pontoppidan.= The Natural History of Norway. London,
1755.

*1760.--=Hans Egede.= New Natural History of Greenland. 1760.?

1763.--=Hans Egede.= Description et Histoire Naturelle de Groenland.
Copenhague et Genève, 1763.

1763.--=Hans Egede.= Beschreibung und Naturgeschichte von Groenland.
Berlin, 1763.

*1764.--=Jonston.= Theatrum universale omnium animalium. Heilbron,
1764.

*1765.--=Knud Leems.= Beskrivelse over Finmarkens Lapper, 1765.

*1767.--=Canutus Leemius.= De Lapponibus Finmarchiae eorumque lingua,
vita et religione historia, c. notis =J. E. Gruneri=. (Text in Latin
and Danish.) 2 Vols. 4^o. with 100 figgs.

*1768.--=Jonston.= Historia naturalis de piscibus et cetis, et de
serpentibus et draconibus. Rouan, 1768.

*1771.--=Knud Leems.= Nachrichten von den Lappen in Finmarken, ihrer
Sprache, Sitten, u. s. w. Aus dem Dän. übers. v. =J. J. Volckmann=.
Leipzig, 1771. 8^o.

*1789.--=Paul Egede.= (Intelligences from Greenland, in the original
Danish language). Kjoebenhavn, 1789.

*1790.--=Paul Egede.= Nachrichten von Groenland aus einem Tagebuch
geführt von 1721-1788. Kopenhagen, 1790.

*1805.--=Peter Ascanius.= Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures
enluminées d’histoire naturelle du Nord. Cah. V. Copenhague 1805.
(In the first four Cahiers the author does not touch the subject).

1808, Nov.--_The Philosophical Magazine._ Vol. 32, p. 190.

1809, Jan.--_The Philosophical Magazine._ Vol. 33, p. 90.

1809, March.--_The Philosophical Magazine._ Vol. 33, p. 251.

1809, May.--_The Philosophical Magazine._ Vol. 33, p. 411.

1809, July.--=E. Home.= An anatomical account of the _Squalus
Maximus_, which, etc.--_Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society at London_, 1809. Vol. 98, p. 206-220.

1811, March.--=Dr. Barclay.= Remarks on some parts of the animal that
was cast ashore on the Island of Stronsa, September 1808.--_Memoirs
of the Wernerian Natural History Society_, Vol. I.

1817, Aug. 20.--Extract from a letter from =S. G. Perkins=, Esq.
dated Boston, Aug. 20, 1817, to =E. Everett=, in Paris.--(This
extract, a manuscript, preserved in the Library of the Royal
University of Göttingen, has never before been printed.)

*1817, Oct. 15.--_The Columbian_ (newspaper).

*1817, Oct. 22 or 23.--(A New York newspaper).

1817, Nov. 13.--Letter from =Edward Everett= in Paris to the
“Obermedicinalrath und Ritter” =Blumenbach= in Göttingen.--(This
letter preserved in the Library of the Royal University of Göttingen,
has never before appeared in print).

1817, Dec.--Report of a Committee of the Linnaean Society of
New England relative to a large marine animal, supposed to be a
sea-serpent, seen near Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in August, 1817. 8^o.
Boston, 1817, with two plates, 52 pg.

*1817.--_Transactions of the Linnaean Society of New England._
Boston, 1817.

1818, April.--=H. M. Ducrotay de Blainville.= Sur un nouveau genre
de Serpent, _Scoliophis_, et le Serpent de mer vu en Amérique en
1817.--_Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d’Histoire Naturelle._ Vol.
86. Paris, 1818.

1818, June.--Sur le serpent nommé _Scoliophis_.--Extrait d’une lettre
de =M. A. Lesueur= au Rédacteur (=Mr. H. M. Ducrotay de Blainville=).
_Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d’Histoire Naturelle._ Vol. 86.
Paris 1818.

1818.--=Hoffmann= and =Oken=. Thier von Stronsa. =Oken’s= Isis, II,
1818, p. 2096.

1818.--=W. D. Peck.= Some Observations on the Sea-Serpent.--_Memoirs
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences._ Vol. IV. Part 1.
Cambridge 1818.

1818.--American Sea Serpent.--The _Journal of Science and the
Arts_.--Edited at the _Royal Institution of Great Britain_. Vol. IV.
London, 1818, p. 378.

1818.--American Sea-Serpent.--_The Quarterly Journal of Science,
Literature and the Arts. R. Inst._ Vol. VI. London, 1818, p. 163.

1818.--Wieder eine ungeheure Meerschlange an America.--=Oken’s= Isis,
1818, p. 2100.

*1818, June 9.--_Commercial Advertiser_, Boston.

1818, Aug. 21.--(Boston Newspaper). A paragraph from this newspaper
is preserved in the library of the Royal University of Göttingen.

1818, Sept. 11.--Letter from =Mr. Andrews Norton= to =Mr. George
Bancroft=, at that time a resident at Göttingen.--The letter is
preserved in the library of the Royal University of Göttingen, and
has never before appeared in print.

*1818.--W .... On the history of the Great
Sea-Serpent.--=Blackwood’s= _Magazine_, III. p. 33-42.

1819, Jan.--American Sea-Serpent.--_The Philosophical Magazine_, Vol.
LIII, p. 71.

1819.--=W. D. Peck.= Some observations on the Sea Serpent.--_The
Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science and the Arts. R. Inst._ Vol.
VIII. London, 1819, p. 68.

1819.--_Scoliophis._ Eine neue Schlangen-Sippe.--=Oken’s= _Isis_,
1819, p. 113.

1819.--Meerschlange in Amerika. =Lesueur= aus Amerika an
=Blainville=.--=Oken’s= _Isis_, 1819. p. 263.

1819.--Ueber die Meerschlange an Amerika. Von =T. Say= aus
Philadelphia an =Leach= in London.--=Oken’s= _Isis_, 1819, p. 653.

1819.--Einige Bemerkungen über die Meerschlange von Amerika, von =W.
D. Peck=, Prof. d. N. G. in Amerika.--=Oken’s= _Isis_, 1819, p. 1123.

*1819. Aug. 19.--_Boston Daily Advertiser._

*1819.--_Boston Centinel._

1819.--Amerikanische Meerschlange.--=Oken’s= _Isis_, 1819. p. 1754.

1819. Nov.--=C. S. Rafinesque Schmaltz.= Dissertation on
Water-Snakes, Sea-Snakes and Sea-Serpents.--_Philosophical Magazine._
Vol. LIV.

1820, May.--=Prof. Jacob Bigelow.= Documents and Remarks respecting
the Sea-Serpent.--=Silliman’s= _American Journal of Science and
Arts._ Vol. II, p. 147-154. Boston (1819) 1820.

1820.--De beruchte Zeeslang op de kusten van
Noord-Amerika.--_Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen voor 1820_, Tweede
Stuk, Mengelwerk, Amsterdam, 1820.

1821.--On the American Sea-Serpent.--_The Philosophical Magazine and
Journal_, Vol. 57, 1821, p. 356-359.

1821.--=Walter Scott.= The Pirate, Vol. I, Chp. II.

1821.--=Otto von Kotzebue.= Entdeckungs-Reise in die Süd-See und nach
der Behrings-Strasse zur Erforschung einer nordöstlichen Durchfahrt.
Unternommen in den Jahren 1815, 1816, 1817 und 1818. Weimar, 1821,
Zweiter Band, p. 108.

*1821.--=Otto von Kotsebue.= Voyage of discovery into the South-Sea
and Behring’s Straits, London, 1822.

1821.--Sea-Serpent.--_The Philosophical Magazine and Journal_, Vol.
58, p. 454.

1821.--Analysis of one of the Vertebrae of the Orkney Animal.--_The
Edinburgh Philosophical Journal._ Vol. V, p. 227.

1822. Jan.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und
Heilkunde_, I, n^o. 19, p. 294.

1822.--=Dr. Hibbert.= Description of the Shetland-Islands. London,
1822, p. 565.

1822.--=Otto von Kotsebue.= Ontdekkingsreis in de Zuid-Zee en naar de
Behrings straat in de jaren 1815, 1816, 1817 en 1818, tweede deel p.
277. Amsterdam, 1822.

*1822. June, 15.--_New-York_ ... (newspaper).

1822. Aug.--Die sogenannte Seeschlange.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem
Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde_, III, n^o. 48, p. 53.

1823. Febr.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und
Heilkunde_, IV, n^o. 68, p. 24.

1823.--=A. de Capell Brooke.= Travels through Sweden, Norway and
Finmark in the Summer of 1820. London 1823.

1823. June.--Nachrichten über die grosse Seeschlange.--=Froriep’s=
_Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde_, IV, n^o. 84, p.
273.

*1824.--_Newbury port_ ... (newspaper).

1824.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und
Heilkunde_, VIII, n^o. 168, p. 218.

*1826. June 21.--_New York Advertiser._

1826. Oct.--Sea-Serpent.--_The American Journal of Science and Arts_,
conducted by =Benjamin Silliman=, Vol. XI.

1827.--=Dr. Hooker.= Additional testimony respecting the Sea-Serpent
of the American Seas.--_The Edinburgh Journal of Science_, Vol. VI,
1827, p. 126.

1827, April.--=Dr. Hooker.= Fernere Zeugnisse über die Seeschlange in
den Amerikanischen Meere.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem Gebiete der
Natur- und Heilkunde_, XVIII, n^o. 256, p. 49.

1827, June.--Sea Serpent.--_The American Journal of Science and
Arts_, conducted by =Benjamin Silliman=, Vol. XII, June, 1827, New
Haven.

*1827, Aug.--Norwegische Handelszeitung zu Christiania.

*1827, Sept. 5.--Norwegische Handelszeitung zu Christiania.

*1827, Sept. 15.--Norwegische Handelszeitung zu Christiania.

1828, Jan.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und
Heilkunde_, XIX, n^o. 409, p. 193.

*1828.--=John Fleming.= A history of British Animals, etc.,
Edinburgh, 1828.

1829.--=Sam. L. Mitchill.= The history of Sea
Serpentism.--=Silliman’s= _American Journal of Science and Arts_,
1829.

1830, April, May.--_Chronicle._

1830, June.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und
Heilkunde_, XXVII, n^o. 589, p. 265.

1832, Nov.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und
Heilkunde_, XXXV, n^o 756, p. 122.

*1834.--=Bakewell.= _Introduction to Geology._ Chap. XVI, p. 312;
with a note of Prof. =Silliman=.

1834. June.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und
Heilkunde_, XL, n^o 879, p. 328.

*1834.--=C. S. Rafinesque Schmaltz.=--Abhandlung über
Wasser-Schlangen, etc.--=Oken’s= _Isis_, 1834. Extract from _Phil.
Mag._ 1819.

1835. July.--A sea-serpent.--=Silliman’s= _American Journal of
Science and Arts_, Vol. 28, New Haven, July, 1835.

1835. Aug.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und
Heilkunde_, XLV, n^o 980. p. 186.

1837.--=H. Schlegel.= Essai sur la physionomie des Serpens,
Amsterdam, 1837.

*1837, Sept.--The “_Adis_” of Drontheim, (newspaper).

1837, Oct.--=Froriep’s= _Neue Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und
Heilkunde_, IV, n^o 67, p. 7.

1839.--=Dr. R. Hamilton.= Amphibious Carnivora, Group III, (Vol. XXV
of =Jardine’s= _Naturalist’s Library_).

*1839.--_The Athenaeum_, London, 1839, p. 902.

*1839.--_Boston Mercantile._

*1839.--_Kennebek Journal._

1839, Oct.--=Froriep’s= _Neue Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und
Heilkunde_, XII, n^o 248, p. 88.

*1840.--_Boston Daily Advertiser._

*1840, Sept. 15.--_Journal du Havre._

1841.--=H. Rathke.= Ueber die Seeschlange der Norweger.--_Archiv für
Naturgeschichte_ 7^{er} Jahrgang, I, 1841, p. 278.

*1843.--_Christiansund Posten._

1843, Nov.--=Froriep’s= _Neue Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und
Heilkunde_, XXVIII, n^o 606, p. 184.

*1844.--=H. Schlegel.= Essay on the physiognomy of Serpents,
Edinburgh, 1844.

*1845.--_Cincinnati Gazette._

1845, Nov.--_Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History_,
Vol. II, p. 65.

1845, Dec.--_Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History_,
Vol. II, p. 73.

1846, Jan.--_Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History_,
Vol. II, p. 94.

1846, Febr.--=Froriep’s= _Neue Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und
Heilkunde_, XXXVII, n^o 801, p. 134.

1847.--=Dr. R. Hamilton.= Amphibious Carnivora, Group III, (Vol. XXV,
of =Jardine’s= _Naturalist’s Library_).

1847.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1847, p.
1604-1608.

*1847.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1847, n^o LIV, wrapper.

1847.--The Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1847, p. 1714-1716.

1847.--=Charles Cogswell.= A plea for the North Atlantic
Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1847, p. 1841-1846.

1847.--The Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1847, p. 1911.

1847, July.--Ueber die Seeschlange.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem
Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde_, Dritter Reihe, III, 54, p. 148.

1847, Oct.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1847, Preface.

1848.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1848, p. 2028.

1848, June.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und
Heilkunde_, Dritter Reihe, VI, 131, p. 328.

1848.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1848, p.
2192-2193.

*1848, Oct. 9.--_The Times._

*1848, Oct. 13.--_The Times._

*1848, Oct. 21.--_The Literary Gazette._

*1848, Oct. 21.--_The Globe._

*1848, Oct. 23.--_The Times._

1848, Oct. 28.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._

*1848, Nov. 2.--_The Times._

*1848, Nov. 4.--_The Times._

1848, Nov. 4.--The fossil Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._

*1848, Nov. 11.--=Prof. Richard Owen.=--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The
Times._

1848, Nov. 15?--Note on the subject “_Dodo_” of Mssrs. =Strickland=
and =Melville=.--_Annals and Magazine of Natural History_, 2d.
Series, Vol. II, p. 444.

1848, Nov. 15?--=Prof. Richard Owen.= The Great Sea-Serpent.--_Annals
and Magazine of Natural History_, 2d. Series, Vol. II, p. 458.

*1848, Nov. 21.--_The Times._

1848, Nov. 23.--=Prof. Richard Owen.= The Great
Sea-Serpent.--=Galignani’s= _Messenger_.

*1848, Nov. 25.--_Boston Daily Advertiser._

1848, Nov. 25.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._

1848, Nov. 27.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London,
1848, p. 2306-2324.

1848, Nov. 27.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1848, Preface.

1848, Dec.--=Prof. Richard Owen.= Ueber die Seeschlange. =Froriep’s=
_Notizen a. d. Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde_, Dritter Reihe,
VIII, n^o 169, p. 231.

*1848.--_Transactions of the Linnaean Society of New England_,
Boston, 1848.

*1848, Dec. 30.--_Bombay Bi-monthly Times._

*1849.--Life and Letters of Campbell, 1849?

*1849, Jan.--_Westminster Review._

*1849, Jan.--_Bombay Bi-monthly Times._

*1849, March?--_Boston Atlas._

*1849.--_Montrose Standard._

1849.--Enormous undescribed animal.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1849,
p. 2356

1849.--Inquiries respecting the Bones of a large Marine Animal, cast
ashore on the Island of Stronsa, 1808.--_The Zoologist_, London,
1849, p. 2358-2363.

1849, Apr. 14.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._

1849.--The Sea-Serpent?--_The Zoologist_, London, 1849, p. 2395-2398.

1849.--A strange Marine Animal.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1849, p.
2433.

1849, May, 19.--The Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._

*1849, July, 9.--_The Sun._

1849, July.--Ueber die Grosse Seeschlange.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus
dem Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde_, Dritter Reihe, X, n^o 205, p.
97.

1849.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1849, p.
2458-2460.

1849.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1849, p. 2541.

1849.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1849.--Preface.

1850, Jan. 12.--The Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._

1850, Jan. 19.--The Great Sea-Serpent. _The Illustrated London News._

*1850.--Romance of the Sea-Serpent or Ichthyosaurus. Also a
collection of the ancient and modern authorities, with letters from
distinguished merchants and men of science. Cambridge, U. S. 1850,
12^o, 172 pages.

*1850.--_Christian Mercury_ (U. S. newspaper).

*1850.--_Charlestown Courier._

1850, April 20.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London
News._

1850.--The Great Sea-Serpent again.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1850,
p. 2803.

*1850, Sept. 2.--_Cork Constitution._

*1850, Sept. 7.--_Cork Constitution._

1850, Sept. 7.--The Sea-Serpent again!--_The Illustrated London News._

*1850, Sept. 11.--_Cork Reporter._

1850, Sept. 14.--The Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._

1850.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1850, p.
2925-2928.

1850, Dec. _Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History._
Vol. III, p. 328.

1851.--Rev. =Alfr. Chrl. Smith=. Notes on Observations in Natural
History during a Tour in Norway.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1851, p.
3228.

1851, Oct.--=Froriep’s= _Tagsberichte über die Fortschritte der
Natur- und Heilkunde, Abth. Zoologie und Palaeontologie_, n^o 395.

*1852, Febr.--_New York Tribune._

1852, Febr.--=Galignani’s= _Messenger_.

*1852, Febr.--_Philadelphia Bulletin._

*1852, Mrch. 10.--_The Times._

1852, Mrch. 13.--The Great Sea-Serpent caught at last.--_The
Illustrated London News._

1852, Mrch.--=Froriep’s= _Tagsberichte über die Fortschritte der
Natur- und Heilkunde, Abth. Zoologie und Palaeontologie_, p. 486.

1852, Mrch.--=Froriep’s= _Tagsberichte über die Fortschritte der
Natur- und Heilkunde, Abth. Zoologie und Palaeontologie_, p. 491.

1852, Apr.--Reported Capture of the Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_,
London, p. 3426-3429.

*1852, Nov. 17.--_The Times._

1853, Jan.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1853, p.
3756.

1854, June?--=Dr. T. S. Traill.= On the supposed Sea-Snake, cast
on shore in the Orkneys in 1808, and the animal seen from H. M. S.
“Daedalus” in

1848.--_Proceedings of the Royal Society at Edinburgh_, III, n^o 44,
p. 208.

1855, Febr. 17.--The Sea-Serpent Once More.--_The Illustrated London
News._

*1855, Aug. 13.--_Buffalo Daily Reporter._

1855, Sept. 15.--The Great Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._

*1855, Oct. 1.--_The Times._

1855. The Great American Snake Caught. _The Zoologist_, London, 1855,
p. 4896.

1856, May 3.--Another Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._

1856, Oct. 4.--The Sea-Serpent again. _The Illustrated London News._

1856.--The Great Sea-Serpent. _The Zoologist_, London, 1856, p. 4948.

1856.--The Sea-Snake Story a fiction. _The Zoologist_, London, 1856,
p. 4998.

*1857, Febr. and March.--_Cape Argus._

*1857, March 14.--_Cape Argus._

1857, June 13.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._

*1858, Febr. 5.--_The Times._

*1858, Febr. 13.--_The Times._

*1858, Febr. 16.--_The Times._

*1858, Febr. 23.--_The Times._

1858, Febr.--_Revue Britannique_, n^o 2, p. 496.

1858, March 20.--Another Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._

*1858, July or Aug.--_Java Bode._

*1858, Oct. 6.--_Amsterdamsche Courant._

1858.--Another Peep at the Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London,
1858, p. 5989.

1858.--The Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1858, p. 6015-6018.

1859.--Another Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1859, p. 6492.

1860.--=Dr. R. Hamilton=, Amphibious Carnivora, Group III, (Vol. XXV
of =Jardine’s= _Naturalist’s Library_.)

1860.--=P. H. Gosse.= The Romance of Natural History, Vol. I, Lond.,
Nisbet, 1860.

1860.--A Sea-Serpent in the Bermudas.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1860,
p. 6934.

1860.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1860, p.
6985-6993.

1860.--The Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1860, p. 7051-7052.

1860.--On the Probable Origin of Some Sea-Serpents.--_The Zoologist_,
London, 1860, p. 7237.

1860.--Captain =Tailor’s= Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London,
1860, p. 7278.

1860, Sept.--_Skibbereen Eagle._

*1860, Sept.--_Cork Constitution._

1861.--A Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1861, p. 7354.

*1862.--=Grattan’s= _Civilized America_, p. 39.

1862.--The Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1862, p. 7850-7852.

1863.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1863, p. 8727.

1863, June 13.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._

*1870, April 9.--=F. Buckland=, The Sea-Snake Again.--_Land and
Water._

1872, June 13.--_Nature_, Vol. VI.

1872, Aug. 1.--_Nature_, Vol. VI.

1872, Aug. 17.--Sea-Serpent, lately seen near Galveston. _The
Graphic._

*1872, Sept. 7.--_Land and Water._

1872, Sept. 12.--_Nature_, Vol. VI.

1873, May.--Appearance of an Animal, believed to be that which is
called the Norwegian Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1873, p.
3517-3522.

*1873, Nov.--_The Scotsman._

*1873, Nov. 20.--_The Times._

1873, Dec.--The supposed Sea-Serpent.--_The Zoologist_, London, 1873,
p. 3804.

1875, Nov. 20.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._

1875, Dec. 4.--_Illustrirte Zeitung._

1876, June 29.--The Sea-Serpents of the seventeenth Century.--_The
Graphic._

*1876, June.--_The Scotsman._

*1876, June.--_The Courant._

*1876, Dec.?--_London and China Telegraph._

*1876, Dec.--_Good Words._

*1877.--=J. Adams.= Account of a supposed Sea-Serpent seen off Nepean
Island. _Proceedings Lit. Philosophical Society of Liverpool_, n^o
XXXI, p. LXVIII.

*1877, Jan. 6.--=J. K. Webster.=--The Sea-Monster.--_Advertiser and
Ladies’ Journal._

*1877, Jan. 10, sqq.--(Newspapers of Liverpool).

1877, Jan. 13.--_Illustrated London News_, p. 35, 3d column.

*1877, Jan. 15.--=R. A. Proctor.= Strange Sea-Monsters.--_The Echo._

1877, Jan. 27.--The Sea-Serpent.--_The Graphic._

1877, Febr. 3.--Zur Geschichte der Seeschlange.--_Illustrirte
Zeitung._

*1877, Mrch.--=R. A. Proctor.= Strange Sea-Creatures.--_The
Gentlemen’s Magazine._

*1877, June 13?--_Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette._

*1877, June 14.--_The Times._

1877, June 16.--_The Graphic_, p. 563, 3^d. column.

1877, June 30.--The Sea-Serpent.--_The Graphic._

*1877, Sept. 4.--_Manchester Courier._

*1877, Sept. 8.--=F. Buckland.= Occurrence of a Sea-Serpent.--_Land
and Water._

*1877, Sept. 15.--=F. Cornish=, Reply to =Buckland=.--_Land and
Water._

*1878.--_Wochenblatt für das Christliche Volk._

*1878, May 24.--=F. Buckland.= Supposed Sea-Snake caught in
Australia.--_Land and Water._

1878, Sept. 5.--The Sea-Serpent explained.--_Nature_, Vol. XVIII.

*1878, Sept. 6.--_The Scotsman._

1878, Sept. 12.--The Sea-Serpent explained.--_Nature_, Vol. XVIII.

1878, Sept. 19.--The Sea-Serpent explained.--_Nature_, Vol. XVIII.

1879.--=Andrew Wilson.= Leisure Time Studies; chiefly biological; a
Series of Essays and Lectures. With Numerous Illustrations, London,
Chatto and Windus, 1879.

1879, Jan. 30.--(Critic of =Mr. Wilson’s= Leisure Time
Studies).--_Nature_, Vol. XIX.

1879, April 19.--_The Graphic._

1879, July 19.--_The Graphic._

1879, July 24.--The Sea-Serpent.--_Nature_, Vol. XX.

*1879, Sept. 24.--_The Times._

1880.--=A. Günther.= The Study of Fishes, p. 521. Edinburgh, 1880.

1880, Nov. 18.--=Searles V. Wood=, Jun. Order
Zeuglodontia.--_Nature_, Vol. XXIII.

1881, Febr. 10.--=Searles V. Wood.= Zeuglodontia.--_Nature_, Vol.
XXIII.

*1881, Sept. 8.--_Madras Mail._

1881, Oct. 8.--_Le Monde Illustré._

1881, Oct. 13.--_Nature_, Vol. XXIV.

1881, Nov. 12.--=A. C. Oudemans, Jzn.= Iets over fabelachtige
verhalen en over het vermoedelijk bestaan van de groote
Zeeslang.--_Album der Natuur_, 1882, p. 13-26. (The issue appeared
already Nov. 12, 1881).

*1881, Nov. 15?--_Cape Argus._

1881, Nov. 17.--_De Zuid-Afrikaan._

1881, Nov. 26.--_Nieuws van den Dag._

1882, Jan.--=P. Harting.= Een Zeeslang.--_Album der Natuur_, 1882, p.
66.

*1882.--=Catherine C. Hopley.= Curiosities and Wonders of
Serpent-Life. London, 1882, 8^o p. 247-267.

*1882, May, 22.--Giant cuttlefishes.--_Scotsman._

*1882, June.--The Sea-Serpent at Shetland.--_Glasgow Herald._

*1882, June.--_Newcastle Chronicle._

1882.--Die Neueste Seeschlange.--_Illustrirte Zeitung_, p. 2035.

*1882, July, 1.--A. Stradling.--_Land and Water._

1882.--=G. Verschuur.= Eene reis rondom de wereld in vierhonderd en
tachtig dagen. Haarlem, 1882.

1883.--=Henry Lee.= Sea Monsters Unmasked.--London, Clowes & Son,
1883.

1883, Jan., 25.--The Sea-Serpent.--_Nature_, Vol. XXVII.

1883, Febr. 1.--The Sea-Serpent.--_Nature_, Vol. XXVII.

1883, Febr. 8.--The Sea-Serpent.--_Nature_, Vol. XXVII.

1883, Febr. 15.--The Sea-Serpent.--_Nature_, Vol. XXVII.

1883, Oct. 20.--The Inevitable Sea-Serpent.--_The Graphic_ p. 387.

*1883, Nov. 4.--_Chambers’_ _Journal_, p. 748.

*1884, Sept. 14.--_Inverness Courier._

1884, Nov.--=C. Honigh.= Reisschetsen uit Noorwegen.--_De Gids_, p.
300.

*1885, July, 29-Sept. 6.--=W. Reid.= History of Sea-Serpents.--=John
O’Groat= _Journal_.

*1885, Sept. 1.--The Sea-Serpent again.--_Scotsman._

1885, Sept. 10.--_Nature_, Vol. XXXII.

*1886, Sept. 15.--The Sea-Serpent again.--_Evening Dispatch_,
Edinburgh.

1886, Sept. 25.--_The Graphic._

1886.--=W. E. Hoyle.= Sea-Serpent.--_Encyclopaedia Britannica_ Ed. 9.

1886.--=W. E. Hoyle.= Contribution to a Bibliography of the
Sea-Serpent (read 21st. April, 1886).--_Proceedings of the Royal
Physical Society of Edinburgh._ 1886.

*1889, May 21.--_De Grondwet_, n^o 38.--(Journal, edited in Holland,
Michigan, U. S. A.)

1889, June 6.--_Haagsche Courant._

1889, Dec. 7?--=John Ashton.= Curious Creatures in Zoology.--With 130
Illustrations throughout the text. London, John C. Nimmo (1890) p.
268-278.

1890, July 12.--_De Amsterdammer_, Weekblad voor Nederland.

and probably:

*17 ?--=Mongitore.= Remarkable Objects of Sicily.

*18 ?--=Leguat.= Travels to Rodrigues Island.

*1888.--=A. Nicholson.= Snakes, Marsupials and Birds.

Should any reader know of any other contribution to the literature of
the sea-serpent, he is earnestly requested by the author of this work
to inform him about it.