388 OCCURRENCE OF SQUILLA DESMARESTI IX THE NORTH SEA. 



collector is trustwortliy, for Squilla is very rare even off Cornwall, and 

 its appearance in the cold sea of April off Harwich is, I believe, unrecorded, 

 to say the least. 



(C) H.M.S. "Circe," 4ih May, 1901. 



Sir, — "With reference to your letter of yesterday the Squilla was 

 actually taken out of the trawl of the boat E. 32 on the date mentioned. One 

 of my officers saw it when he was boarding her, and the skipper sent it 

 to me, as he said that in all his experience of forty years' trawling he had 

 never seen one like it. The Kentish Knock is a shoal off the Thames 

 Estuary in lat. 51-39 N., long. 141 E. The water the Squilla was dredged 

 up in was about twenty-four fathoms. The surface temperature was 52° 

 Fahrenheit at the time. 



