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had been taken in Filey Bay, on the Yorkshire coast, in the 

 summer of 1830, and therefore entitled to a place among 

 British Fishes ; but the whole of the then remaining portion 

 of the work being at that time printed for publication on 

 the 1st of August, 1836, I was unable to avail myself of this 

 interesting information, which came to my hands on the 7th 

 of July. 



On the 30th of the same month I was favoured with a 

 letter from Dr. H. S. Boase, of Penzance, containing an 

 account of the capture of a Spinous Shark on the 23rd of 

 that month, near the Land's End ; and Dr. Boase also very 

 kindly sent me in his letter pen-and-ink sketches of two 

 views of this Shark, made to a scale of one inch to a foot, 

 with representations and specimens of the teeth and spines. 



In November 1837, the Rev. Robert Holdsworth sent me 

 notice by letter of the capture of a Spinous Shark, taken in a 

 trawl-net off Brixliam, with pen-and-ink sketches of the form 

 of the body, with a small portion of its spine-studded skin, 

 and some of its teeth. 



At the meeting of the British Association at Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne, in August 1838, Arthur Strickland, Esq. of 

 Bridlington, exhibited in tlie section devoted to Natural 

 History a drawing, and read a short description, of a Spinous 

 Shark, which had been recently found on the Yorkshire 

 coast, and was evidently of this species, Mr. Gray referring 

 to the figure of it lately published by Dr. Andrew Smith in 

 the first number of his " Illustrations of the Zoology of 

 South Africa," which the drawing exhibited by Mr. Strick- 

 land very closely resembled. 



Lastly, I may add that on the 9th of November 1838, the 

 Rev. Robert Holdsworth sent me word that another speci- 

 men of the Spinous Shark had been caught on a fisherman''s 

 line off Berry Head on the previous Tuesday. I soon af- 

 terwards received a notice of this last capture from my 



