LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Frontispiece. — The Sea Serpent as first seen from H.!M.S. 
Dcedaliis. 
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1. Beak and Arms of a Decapod Cuttle i6 
2. The Octopus {^Octopus vulgaris) i8 
3. The Cuttle {Sepia officinalis) 21 
4. Hooked Tentacles of Onychofeuthis 23 
5. Japanese fisherman attacked by a Cuttle 29 
6. Arms of a great Cuttle exhibited in a Japanese fish-shop . 29 
7. Facsimile of De Montfort's Poiilpe colossal'^ 33 
8. Gigantic Calamary caught by the French despatch vessel 
Alecto7i, near Teneriffe 39 
9. Tentacle of a great Calamary {Architeuthis princeps) taken 
in Conception Bay, Newfoundland 43 
10. Head and Tentacles of a great Calamary {Architeiithis 
prijiceps) taken in Logic Bay, Newfoundland .... 44 
11. Jonah and the Sea Monster 55 
12. Sea Serpent seizing a man on board ship 58 
13. Gigantic Lobster dragging a man from a ship 58 
14. Pontoppidan's " Sea Serpent " 63 
15. The Animal drawn by Mr. Bing as having been seen by Egede 66 
16. The Animal which Egede probably saw 67 
17. The Sea Serpent of the Wernerian Society C/^rri-///^//^) . . 69 
18. A Calamary swimming at the surface of the sea .... 77 
19. The Sea Serpent passing under the quarter of H.M.S. 
Daedalus 81 
20. The Sea Serpent and Sperm Whale as seen from the 
Pauline 91 
21. The Sea Serpent as seen from the City of Baltimore ... 93 
22. The Sea Serpent as seen from H.^NI. yacht Osborne. 
Phase I 94 
23. The Sea Serpent as seen from H.]\L yacht Osborne. 
Phase 2 94 
24. Skeleton of the Plesiosattrtis, restored by Mr. Conybeare . 98 
25. The Sea Serpent on the Enaliosaurian hypothesis . . . 100 
