CONTENTS. 



savrus— Professor Owen's Strictures and Opinion 

 —Suggests a great Seal— Captain M'Quhae's 

 Reply— Mr. Davidson's confirmatory Testimony 

 —Animal seen from the Barham— Captain Her- 

 riman examines a supposed Sea-serpent — Finds 

 it a Sea- weed — Captain Harrington's Testimony 

 — Captain Smith's Sea-weed Experience— More 

 Testimony from the Dwdalus— Examination 

 of the accumulated Evidence — Recapitulation — 

 Dismission of Sea-weed Hypothesis — Tests- 

 Mammalia — Professor Owen's Hypothesis — 

 Reasons against it — Vagueness of the Drawings 

 — No Seal tenable — Cetacea — Fishes — Shark Hy- 

 pothesis—Ribbon-Fishes—Eels — Reptiles— Small 

 Sea-snakes — Occurrence of a true Serpent in the 

 Atlantic— Serpent Hypothesis rejected— Con- 

 sideration of Enaliosaurian Hypothesis — Resem- 

 blances— Difficulty of Mane— Objections examined 

 —Improbability of Perpetuation of the Form- 

 Examples adduced— Evidence of present EmiUo- 

 sauria— Absence of recent Remains— This Objec- 

 tion shewn to be groundless— Examples of re- 

 cent Whales— The Whale of Havre— So werby's 

 Diodon — High-finned Cachalot — Rhinoceros 

 Whale— Delphinorhynchus of the Atlantic— Con- 

 clusion, 280 



