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of Edinburgh , Session 1872-73. 
Walter Stewart, F.C.S., Haymarket Terrace. 
Robert Tennent, Esq., 21 Lynedoch Place. 
Robert Walker, M.A., Edinburgh Academy, Fellow of Clare College, 
Cambridge. 
William Boyd, M.A., Peterhead. 
Morrison Watson, M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy in the University, 
Edinburgh. 
J. Bell Pettigrew, M.D., F.R.S., Conservator of Museum, Royal 
College of Surgeons. 
Monday , Ylth March 1873. 
Sir ALEXANDER GRANT, Bart., Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read: — 
1. A Contribution to the Visceral Anatomy of the Greenland 
Shark ( Lcemargus borealis). By Professor Turner. 
Naturalists have recorded a few instances of the capture of the 
Greenland shark in the British seas. Dr Fleming states that one 
was caught in 1803 in the Pentland Firth, and that one was found 
dead at Burra Firth, Unst, in 1824. Mr Yarrell refers to a speci- 
men caught on the coast of Durham in 1840, which has been pre- 
served in the Durham University Museum. In May 1859, a speci- 
men about ten feet long was caught in the Firth of Forth, near 
Inchkeith, the stuffed skin of which is preserved in the Edinburgh 
Museum of Science and Art. In 1862 a specimen was caught on 
the Dogger Bank, and brought into Leith. A brief description of 
its external character was read by Mr W. S. Young to the Royal 
Physical Society of Edinburgh. On April 27, 1870, Dr John 
Alexander Smith read before the same Society a notice of a female 
specimen caught about thirty miles east of the Bell Rock. It had 
become entangled in one of the deep-sea fishing-lines, many of the 
hooks attached to which had stuck into its body. It measured 
about 15 feet in length, and 3 feet 1 inch between the tips of the 
tail-lobes. The stuffed skin of this fish is also preserved in the 
Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art. In the month of February 
of the present year, three specimens were caught by fishermen at 
sea, some miles east of the Bell Rock, and brought into Brough ty 
