2434 Fishes, fyc. 



contemporaries with the folly of affecting to suppose that they knew everything. 

 What additions have five-and-thirty years not given to Science! As the animal in 

 question must be at least a rare local visitor, may we not hope that some resident na- 

 turalist will favour us with a notice of it ? 



" The Great Sea-Serpent caught at last, by fourteen fishermen, off Cullercoats, on 

 Monday last, March 26, 1849. This most wonderful monster of the deep was dis- 

 covered by a crew of fishermen, about six miles from the land, who, after a severe 

 struggle, succeeded in capturing this, the most wonderful production of the mighty 

 deep. This monster has been visited by numbers of the gentry and scientific men of 

 Newcastle, and all declare that nothing hitherto discovered in Natural History 

 affords any resemblance to this. As an object of scientific inquiry, this ' great 

 unknown' must prove a subject of peculiar interest. Many surmises as to its habits, 

 native shores, &c, have already been made, but nothing is really known. The gene- 

 ral opinion expressed by those that are best able to judge, is, that this is the great 

 sea-serpent, which hitherto has only been believed to have a fabulous existence, but 

 which recent voyagers declare they have seen. Now exhibiting, at the shop, 57, Grey 

 Street, opposite the High Bridge. Admission : ladies and gentlemen, 6d. Working 

 people, 3d. each." 



Occurrence of the Anglesey Morris (Leptocephalus Morrisii) and Argentine (Argen- 

 tina sphyrama) at Redcar. — The other afternoon (21st instant) I found, on the high 

 water-mark between this place and the Tees mouth, a fine specimen of the Anglesey 

 morris ; length 5 inches. At the same time and place I also found a mutilated spe- 

 cimen of the argentine; length l£ inch. — T. S. Rudd ; Redcar, March 23, 1849. 



Preservation of Crustacea. — In answer to the inquiries of " Scoticus," I beg to say 

 that I have had a good deal of practice in the preserving of Crustacea ; and the most 

 simple plan, if they are small, is to treat them as you would a Coleopterous insect, — 

 by pinning the legs in the position you want them, and placing them in a current of 

 air to dry ; but when large a very different mode must be resorted to. The plan I 

 am mostly in the habit of practising is to leave them until they begin to smell ; then, 

 if it is a crab, I with care remove the carapace. After having scraped and washed 

 the fleshy matter, I take my knife and make a slit in the cartilage of each joint ; then 

 from the inside I push a little cotton down through the leg : this cleans out all the 

 fleshy matter that is likely to be disagreeable. If the specimens are moderately large, 

 I usually insert a wire in every leg, leaving about 2 inches inside ; on these ends I 

 make a crook. I then fill the carapace with plaster of Paris, and fix the legs with 

 their wires into it ; and in a few minutes the specimen is fit to be handled with impu- 

 nity. If the specimen is a lobster, I pull the tail from the carapace, and proceed as 

 above. — Henry Johnson; Royal Institution, Liverpool, April, 1849. 



