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Eryngium maritimum. Scripus pauciflorus. 
Gentiana campestris. E-nanthe crocata ? 
F[yoscyamus niger. | Trifolium dubium, and everywhere 
Botrychium lunaria. the Marram Grass. 
It is rather interesting to find that in the Herbarium of Mr. 
F. A. Lees at the Cartwright Hall, Crambe maritima and 
Mertensia martima are represented from the locality we found 
them still growing in, the former being gathered by Mr. Lees 
in August 1870, and the latter in August 1875.” 
Our special thanks are due to Messrs. W. L. Page, 
A. Hawridge, and W. Sargeant (of the Barrow Naturalists’ 
Field Club) for the splendid arrangements which they had 
made for us; and for their guidance on the island. Our thanks 
are also due to Ed. Wadham, Esq., J.P., the agent of the Duke 
of Buccleugh, for kindly granting a special permit to visit the 
gullery. As the Duke of Buccleugh employs a watcher to 
protect the birds, it is useless trying to see them without 
having obtained permission first. 
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FISHES. 
Fox=Shark at Whitby.—On Friday last, the 12th inst., a 
fine specimen of the Fox-Shark, or Thrasher, A/opecias vulpes, 
was captured (in the salmon nets of John Hall, Fisherman), on 
the Skate Heads within the Whitby Rock-buoy. After a heavy 
struggle, and with the assistance of other cobles, it was with 
considerable difficulty eventually got into the coble, which the 
crew quickly vacated in consequence of the shark’s severe 
struggles, snapping with its jaws, trying to bite the men and 
also to strike them with its long and powerful tail. It was at 
last killed and brought into Whitby and exhibited. When first 
brought to shore it measured in length from the snout to the 
end of its tail 15 feet ; I measured it towards night, and found 
it to be but 14 feet 4 inches long, the pectoral fins measuring 
about 24 inches each in length, and on the morning of Saturday, 
the 13th, it only measured 14 feet, the shrinkage in length in 
24 hours being exactly one foot. 
In August, 1898, a shark of the same species was wounded 
by the ironwork of the wrecked steamer, ‘‘Glentilt,” and 
captured on the rocks at Kettleness near Whitby. It measured 
14 feet 6 inches. —THos. STEPHENSON, Whitby, July 15th, 
1907. 
1907 August I. 
