202 Procceclings of the Boyal Physical Society. 



XVII. Contrihittions to a Bibliography of the " Sea Serpent." 

 By William E. Hoyle, Esq., M.A.(Oxon.), F.R.S.E. 



(Read 21.st April 1886.) 



The subjoined bibliography makes no pretensions whatever 

 to completeness ; it consists merely of a number of titles 

 which came in the compiler's way while studying the subject, 

 and which are here printed in a collected form in the hope 

 that they may be the means of saving time and labour on 

 the part of others. 



Those references which the compiler has himself verified 

 are indicated by an asterisk, the remainder are taken at 

 second hand from more or less reliable sources. The author's 

 thanks are due to Messrs John Gunn and William Evans, 

 E.E.S.E., for a number of newspaper cuttings relating to the 

 subject. 



B.C. ? DiODORUs SicuLUs, Bibliothecii liistorica, lib. iii.* 



A.D. 



77. Plinius, Historia naturalis, lib. viii., cap. 14.* 

 1555. Olaus Magnus, Historia gentium septentrionalium, lib. xxi., cap. 24.' 



1741. Egede, H., Det gamle Gronlands iiye Perlustratioue, Copenhagen ; 



English translation, A Description of Greenland, pp. 86-89, London, 

 1745.* 

 (?) Egede, P., Efterretninger om Gronland, pp. 45, 46, Copenhagen, 

 n. d.* 



1742. Labat, Nouveau yo3'age aux Isles fran9aises de I'Amerique, vii., p. 



341, 8vo, Paris.* 

 1753. PoNTOPPiDAN, E., Norviges Natural Historic, 2 vols. 4to, 1751-53 ; 



English translation, pp. 195 etseq., London, 1755.* 

 1811. Baeclay, J., Eemarks on some parts of the animal that was cast 



ashore on the island of Stronsa, September 1808, 3Icm. JVern. Soc, 



Edin., i., pp. 418-444, pis, ix.-xi.* 



1817. , Report of a Committee of the Linnean Society of New 



England relative to a large marine animal, supposed to be a 

 Serpent, seen near Cape Anne, Massachusetts, 52 pp., 2 pis., 8vo, 

 Boston. 



1818. Pearson, W. B., On the American Sea Serpent, Quart. Journ. Sci. and 



Arts R. Inst., iv., pp. 378-381. 

 Peck, W. D,, Some Observations on tlie Sea Serpent, Mem. Amer. 



Acad., iv., pp. 86-91.* 

 Woodward, J., Wieder eine ungeheure Meerschlange an America, 



Isis, pp. 2100-2102. 

 W., On the History of the Great Sea Serpent, Blackwood's Magazine, 



iii., pp. 33-42.* 



