CHLAMYDOSELACHUS ANGUINEUS. ile 
A hitherto unknown marine monstre was thus on the point of 
being revealed to the knowledge of man, and subjected to scientific 
examination. All that we know about it is due to the attention called 
to it by an American journal, which led subsequently to correspon- 
dence between the skipper (S. W. Hanna of Pemmaquid) and Professor 
Spencer Baird of the Smithsonian Institution, and on which occasion 
the individual was, as far as it could be, described from memory.! 
Although it is doubtful whether skipper Hanna’s account was 
correct on all points, it can hardly be gainsaid that his individual 
was a large, unknown species of shark of an eel-like form, and of a 
length of 7 to 8 métres. 
Can it be that this eel-like shark from New Harbour was really 
a fully developed Chlamydoselachus, or is it possible that even at 
this present day there exists an unknown form of large dimensions 
possibly allied to that species? 
These are questions which may be propounded as riddles which 
the future is called upon to answer. 
1 Proc. U. S. Fish Commission, Vol. III, p. 407 (Washington 1883). 
