574, APPENDIX. 
“Exciting chases after boats’ crews.’ — A splendid hoax. — St. 
Johns’ (N. F.) Hvening Telegram of Aug. 25, 1888. —(R. P. G.) 
The Bishop of Adelaide or a certain Mr. Bisnop of that town 
has found a sea-serpent lying dead on the shore. — Zhe Times of 
Nov. 11, 1891. —(R. P. G.) — Mr. G. Boeiz wrote to the Bishop, 
who promptly answered it was entirely untrue. — (G. B.) 
“Narrow escape of a boats’ crew.” — Te North British Daily 
Mail of September 1892. — (Forwarded to me by Prof. Hepptz.) 
Would-be Sea-Serpents. 
1880 August. -- The sea-serpent of Captain Hanna, of Pemaquid, 
Me. — Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission, Vol. III, N°. 26, 
p. 407. — Without any doubt a fish, but very problematic. — 
Naturen, 1884, N°. 2.— (Forwarded to me by Prof. Court.) 
1880 August 11.— Between Yokohama and San Francisco, lat. 
48.37. long. 180.— Captain Txos. U. Brockienurst, of Henbury 
Hall, Macclesfield, Cheshire, saw on board the Oceanic a snake- 
like fish, 40 feet long, about 18 inches the whole length thick. — 
Letter from Mr. Txos. U. Brockienursr to Mr. R. P. Gree. — 
Without any doubt an eel-shaped fish. —(R. P. G.) 
1883, July or August. — A newspaper of this month mentions the 
capture of a genuine sea-serpent in the Java Sea.---Hydrophis.—(R.P.G.) _ 
1883, October 8. — In the Red Sea, lat.. 23° N., long. 37° hy 
on board the ss. Madura.— Witness Mr. A. Hisses, of Groningen. 
— Meuwe Groninger Courant of August 16, 1892.— The neck 
had the thickness of the upper arm of a man.— Appearance per- 
fectly the same as that witnessed by Mr. G. Vurscuuur (see p. 99). 
1886 or 1887. — ‘The sea-snake-like bird, reported by Count Joacuim 
Prrit, the German African explorer —a little snake-like neck rising 
out of the water, which when fired at, rose into the air, proving to be 
a bird — is of course a kind of Plotus, and most probably P/lotus 
levaillantii Tumm.— A Hertford newspaper of 1887. —(R. P. G.) 
1888? — In Mrs. Cappy’s book 7Z'o Siam and Malasia in the 
Duke of Sutherland's Yacht is a description of a sea-serpent she 
witnessed near Bangkok “which rose slowly out of the water in 
two large luminous curves, like two arches of a low bridge’. —? 
— (R. P. G) 
1889, August. — Standard of 1889, August 15.— A monstrous 
fish was seen floundering in shallow water on the Bancals Rocks, 
not far from the Island of St. Honorat, near Cannes, and had a 
beak like a parrot. — Most probably therefore it was a calanaea 
—(R. P. G,) 
