?S BROOKLYN .AU"SEU:\I SCIENCE BULLETIN 3. I- 
Hxcerpt from .Wti' )'ork 'fisiu-s, September S, /g/j. 
*** " ' Like you, I have spent iiiaii\- years in cruisinj^ from Maine to Florida and 
Nassau, looking for a man bitten by a shark,' Mr. W'inslow wrote to Dr. Lucas. ' Last 
week Colonel Hunter, U. S. A., retired, told me that he saw a man at Key West who 
had part of his left breast bitten away while trying to kill a large shark with a hatchet. 
The shark was caught in the man's seine, and the owner was trying to save his 
net and was standing in about four feet of water when bitten.' " 
"In a postscript Mr. W'inslow adds that he 'once employed a diver who had his 
arm broken by a shark trying to escape from the hold of a sunken steamer. The 
diver had unintentionally cornered ]SIr. vShark. ' " - ■^=- 
" Perha]).s the most remarkable shark story is the following", votichecl 
for by Frank Ctiiidall, vSecretary of the Instittite of Jamaica, save tliat the 
skipper was not " tried for his Hfe," btit for violation of the 
Navigation Laws : 
•To the Editor of the .\Vr<' )'(irk Times: 
I notice by the evening papers that certain documents thrown overboard from 
the Marina Guezada in the harV:)or of Pernambuco, Brazil, were later recovered from 
a shark's stomach, and that these papers will be used as evidence by the Government 
in a prosecution. 
Remarkable as this seems, it is not without j^recedent. In the eighteenth century 
an American priv'ateer was chased by a British man-of-war in the Caribbean Sea, and, 
finding escape impossible, the Yankee skipper threw his ship's papers overl)oard. 
The privateer was captured and taken into Port Royal, Jamaica, and the Captain was 
there placed on trial for his life. As there was no documentary evidence against him 
he was about to be di.scharged when another British vessel arrived in ])ort. The 
Captain of this truiser re])Orted that when off the coast of Haiti a shark had l)een 
captured, and that when opened the privateer's papers had been found in his stomach. 
The papers thus niarvelously recovered were taken into court, and solely u])on the 
evidence which the\' afforded the Captain and crew of the privateer were condemned 
The original papers were preservecj and ])laced on exhibition in the Institute of Jamaica 
in Kingston, where the "shark's papers," as they were called, have always been an 
object of great interest." (Signed) .A. Hyatt \'errill. New York, Nov. 20, 1915." 
17. BASKING SHARK; BONE SHARK 
Ctior/iiniis ii/axiiinis ((itmner) 
Jordan and Evermann, ]). 51. 
Garman, ]>. 39. 
Bears a general resemblance to the mackerel sharks that extends to the lunate 
caudal fin and keeled peduncle. Its gill-slits are much prolonged, taking in almost 
the entire depth of the body ; eyes and teeth small. Dorsal fin midway between the 
])ectoral and ventral fins. Not spotted orstri])eil. Ivcngth over 30 feet. 
