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[Sahara]:


[Sahara Vs] / Vs. Sahara / Cape Verde / ashes / June 28, 1834 / June, 1822 / Feb 2, 1839. [SF-III; 1240. See: (1822 June); (1834 June 28); and, (1839 Feb 2).]


Sahara Vs. / Feb. 4, 1839. [SF-III; 1241. See: (1839 Feb 4).]


[Sahara Vs] / Sahara but a Vesuvius before / March 12, 1922. [SF-III; 1242. See: (1922 March 12).]


Sahara [Vs] / NB / Assoc between Sahara and fall of sand = not sand from Sahara, but that Sahara result of dumping sand from the unknown. [SF-III; 1243.]


Sahara Vs / See lists of mets and dust other places / Nov 13, 1902 / Nov 9. 1819. [SF-III; 1244. See: (1819 Mpv 9), and, (1902 Nov 13).]


Sahara Vs. / 1822 / June. [SF-III; 1245. See: (1822 June).]


Sahara Vs. / Feb. 4, 1839 / sand—ice—q—Ap 12, 1839 / Q and dust—see. [SF-III; 1246. See: (1839 Feb 4), and, (1839 Ap 12).]


Sahara Vs / Sand followed by q, Algeria / Ap 12, 14, 1839. [SF-III; 1247. See: (1839 Ap 12, 14).]


[Sahara Vs] / 1860 / Feb. 9 / Meteoric dust in Syria and Egypt, ac to M. Ehrenbuerg / Le Courier des Sciences, N.S., 1/63. [SF-III; 1248. (Courier des Sciences, n.s., 1-63.)]


Sahara Vs. / June, 1822 / (March 13, 1842) / Feb 9, 1860 / Ap 24, 1880 / Ap 21-26 / Feb 4, 1839. [SF-III; 1249. See: ( June, 1822 / (March 13, 1842) / Feb 9, 1860 / Ap 24, 1880 / Ap 21-26 / Feb 4, 1839).]


[Sahara Vs] / Sahara / other way / Karnten to Rome / Feb 28, March 1, 1866. [SF-III; 1250. See: (1866 Feb 28, March 1).]


[Sahara Vs] / Sahara / Met dust / Algeria / Nov. 15, 1867. [SF-III; 1251. See: (1867 Nov 15).]


[Sahara Vs] / Vs Sahara / Aust and Italy / March 3, etc., 1869. [SF-III; 1252. See: (1869 March 3, etc.).]


[Sahara Vs] / 1863 / Feb. 7 / dust on Canary Islands / said been meteoric / CR 83-76, 1184. [SF-III; 1253. (Comptes Rendus, 83: 76, 1184.)]


Sahara Vs. / Feb 7, 1863 / Feb-March, 1866 / Dec 24, 25, 1870. [SF-III; 1254. See: ( Feb 7, 1863 / Feb-March, 1866 / Dec 24, 25, 1870).]


[Sahara Vs] / Vs Sahara / Sand, Italy and Indiana / Dec 24, 25, 1870 / See March 28, 29, 1880. [SF-III; 1255. See: (Dec 24, 25, 1870) , and, (March 28, 29, 1880.).]


Sahara Vs / Explained / but fall of metite / May 17, 1879. [SF-III; 1256. See: (1879 May 17).]


Sahara Vs / Col. / Ap., 1880. [SF-III; 1257. See: (1880 Ap).]


Sahara Vs / Feb 16-19, 1884. [SF-III; 1258. See: (1884 Feb 16-19).]


Sahara Vs / Feb 15, 1898. [SF-III; 1259. See: (1898 Feb 15).]


[Sahara Vs] / Vs Sahara / Seems from Vesuvius / Feb 6, 1906. [SF-III; 1260. See: (1906 Feb 6).]


Sahara Vs. / Aust and Europe / Jan 22, 1902. [SF-III; 1261. See: (1902 Jan 22).]


Sahara Vs. / Feb. 21, 1903. [SF-III; 1262. See: (1903 Feb 21).]


[Same]:


Same name / See Arnold case, Dec 12, 1910. [AF-III; 325. See: (1910 Dec 12).]


Same / Volc / Japan / afterglow / France / and time if meteors / Dec 10, 1886. [SF-III; 1167. See: (1886 Dec 10).]


Same / 1875 / Dec 11-12 / Time of Geminids / Eruption—Reunion / q.s—India, Java / Great Met—Aden. [SF-III; 1168. See: (1875 Dec 11-12).]


Same / Geminids and Etna / Dec 8, 1868. [SF-III; 1169. See: (1868 Dec 8).]


Same / See Oct 19-20, 1886. [SF-III; 1170. See: (1886 Oct 19-20).]


Same / Dec 7, 1861 / Vesuvius / and Det Met, Liverpool. [SF-III; 1171. See: (1861 Dec 7).]


[The following thirty-eight notes were clipped together by Fort. SF-III: 1172 to 1209.]


Same / Volc—Java / obj—aurora—Venezuela / May 23, 1840. [SF-III; 1172. See: (1840 May 23).]


Same / Dust storm and Meteor—India / Vesuvius / June 28, 1913. [SF-III; 1173. See: (1913 June 28).]


[Same] / Rel / Jan 22, 1910 / Metite and q recorded. [SF-III; 1174. See: (1910 Jan 22).]


[Same] Rel / Jan 2, 1831 / Metite—India / q.—Italy. [SF-III; 1175. See: (1831 Jan 2).]


[Same] / Rel / Va and India / Aug 26 / See 30 / 1833. [SF-III; 1176. See: (1833 Aug 26, 30).]


[Same] / Rel / q—distant met / Met—Va., June 4 / q—Cashmir, [June] 6 / 1828. [SF-III; 1177. See: (1828 June 4, 6).]


[Same] / Rel / Cashmir—Charleston / ? / June 4, 6, 1828. [SF-III; 1178. See: (1828 June 4, 6).]


[Same] / Rel / q—Met / Sept 23—India / [Sept] 25—Asia Minor / 1899/ [SF-III; 1179. See: (1899 Sept 23, 25).]


[Same] / Rel / Kashmir—S. Car / March 25 / Ap. 6, 1843. [SF-III; 1180. See: (1843 March 25, Ap 6).]


[Same] / Rel / Zone / last Jan, 1852 / also July 7, 8, 1852. [SF-III; 1181. See: (1852 last Jan, July 7, 8).]


[Same] / Rel / Zone / July —20—, 1880. [SF-III; 1182. See: (1880 July 20).]


[Same] / Rel / The Zone / Dec 16-Jan 1, 1869-70. [SF-III; 1183. See: (1869 Dec 16-1870 Jan 1).]


[Same] / Zone / Metite and q. / India and Greece / Jan 16, 19, 1825. [SF-III; 1184. See: (1825 Jan 16, 19).]


[Same] / Rel / 1838 / Metite—India—Jan 7 / q—Italy—[Jan] 8-14. [SF-III; 1185. See: (1838 Jan 7, 8-14).]


[Same] / Rel / Zone—1861 / May 7—volc.—Red Sea / [May] 12—Metite—Bengal / [May] 14—Metite—Spain / (Sunspot). [SF-III; 1186. See: (1861 May 7, 12, 14).]


[Same] / Rel / Cashmir—q / and Va.—Metite / June 4, 6—1828. [SF-III; 1187. See: (1828 June 4, 6).]


[Same] / Rel / The Zone / Ap-May, 1894. [SF-III; 1188. See: (1894 Ap-May).]


[Same] / Rel / Cash and Charleston / Jan 1, 12—1913. [SF-III; 1189. See: (1913 Jan 1, 12).]


[Same] / Rels / Distant q's and Meteorite (q first) / 1846—Dec 24—Java / 25—Bavaria / 1863—March 16—Java / 16—India / 1863—Aug 8—Spain / 8—Russia / 1863—Dec 7—Guam / 7—France / 1865—Sept 21—Italy / 21—India / 1867—June 9—Java / 9—Algeria / 1868—May 22—Mexico / 22—Agram / 1877—May 17—Peru / 17—Hungary / 1877—Nov 26—Peru / 27—India / 1878—Aug 29—Alaska / 29—Denmark / 1879—May 17—Mexico—17—Silesia / 1879—July 1—Philippines / 1—Argentine / 1884—Feb 9—Asia Minor / 10 (?)—Punjab / 1885—Ap 6—Spain / 6—India / 1893—Feb 13—Bal-istan / 13—Ohio. [SF-III: 1190.1, 1190.2, 1190.3. See: ( 1846—Dec 24—Java / 25—Bavaria / 1863—March 16—Java / 16—India / 1863—Aug 8—Spain / 8—Russia / 1863—Dec 7—Guam / 7—France / 1865—Sept 21—Italy / 21—India / 1867—June 9—Java / 9—Algeria / 1868—May 22—Mexico / 22—Agram / 1877—May 17—Peru / 17—Hungary / 1877—Nov 26—Peru / 27—India / 1878—Aug 29—Alaska / 29—Denmark / 1879—May 17—Mexico—17—Silesia / 1879—July 1—Philippines / 1—Argentine / 1884—Feb 9—Asia Minor / 10 (?)—Punjab / 1885—Ap 6—Spain / 6—India / 1893—Feb 13—Bal-istan / 13—Ohio).]


[Same] / Rels / distant q and Metite / Dec 22—q—Greece / Dec 25—Met.—Tripoli / 1869. [SF-III; 1191. See: (1869 Dec 22, 25).]


[Same] / Rels / Metite and distant q / Met—India / q—Mexico /Dec 20, 22—1868. [SF-III; 1192. See: (1868 Dec 20, 22).]


[Same] / Zone metites / Aug 25, 1865. [SF-III; 1193. See: (1865 Aug 25).]


[Same] [Rel / Metite and distant q / Met—Nov 1—Spain / q—[Nov] 3—Asia Minor / 1862. [SF-III; 1194. See: (1862 Nov 1, 3).]


[Same] / Related / Charleston and Cashmir / Aug, Oct, 1886 / July 11-12, 1889. [SF-III; 1195. See: (1886 Aug, Oct), and, (1889 Jull 11-12).]


[Same] / Rel / q—distant Met / Met—Berma-Dec 27 / q—Italy, Dec 28 / 1857. [SF-III; 1196. See: (1857 Dec 27, 28).]


[Same] / Rel / Metite and distant volc / India and Stromboli / May 9, 10, 1907. [SF-III; 1197. See: (1907 May 9, 10).]


[Same] / Rel / Metite and distant q / India and Italy / Jan 7, 8, etc., 1838. [SF-III; 1198. See: (1838 Jan 7, 8, etc.).]


[Same] / Rel / Metite and distant q / India and Hungary / July 25, 26—1843. [SF-III; 1199. See: (1843 July 25, 26).]


[Same] / Rel / Metite—India—Nov 12, 1902 / and distant phe. [SF-III; 1200. See: (1902 Nov 12).]


[Same] / Rel / Metite and zoned q's. / Dec 25—1869 / q—Caucasus / M—Tripoli. [SF-III; 1201. See: (1869 Dec 25).]


[Same] / Rels / Metite and distant q / Sep 17—q—St Thomas, W.I. / [Sept] 19—Metite, java / 1869. [SF-III; 1202. (1869 Sept 17, 19).]


[Same] / Rels / Metite and distant Aurora / Ga. and France / Oct. 6, 1869. [SF-III; 1203. See: (1869 Oct 6).]


[Same] Rel / q—distant Metite / 1897 / M—France, Ap 16 / q—Zante, Ap. 17. [SF-III; 1204. See: (1897 Ap 16, 17).]


[Same] / Rel / q—distant Metite / U.S. / Italy / Nov. 27, 1894. [SF-III; 1205. See: (1894 Nov 27).]


[Same] / Rel / q—distant dust / q—Mexico / dust—Italy / Ap 16, 1880. [SF-III; 1206. See: (1880 Ap 16).]


[Same] / Rel / q and distant Metite / 1887 / Met—China—Sept 22 / q—W. Indies—[Sept] 23. [SF-III; 1207. See: (1887 Sept 22,2 3).]


[Same] / Rel / q—distant Metite / (?) / Sept 25, 1852 / q—Philippines / M—India / (?) [SF-III; 1208. See: (1852 Sept 25).]


[Same] / Rel / Zone qs / Charleston and Kashmir—Dec 20, 22—1892 / See Feb, 1893. [SF-III; 1209. See: (1892 Dec 20, 22), and, (1893 Feb).]


Same / Volc, Red Sea / Metite, Missouri / Aug. 14, 1846 / q, Italy. [SF-III; 1210. See: (1846 Aug 14).]


Same / Vesuvius and Stones in France / June 13, 1819. [SF-III; 1211. See: (1819 June 13).]


Same / Mets and 2 volcs / Nov 12-14, 1867. [SF-III; 1212. See: (1867 Nov 12-14).]


Same / Flight of Meteors toward sun / and q, W. Indies / Ap. 29, 1897. [SF-III; 1213. See: (1897 Ap 29).]


Same / High tide—California / q—Persia / Jan 23, 1909 / and Sunspots. [SF-III; 1214. See: (1909 Jan 23).]


Same / Det Met and Op. Mars / Dec 8, 1817. [SF-III; 1215. See: (1817 Dec 8).]


Same / Fireballs / Texas and Eng / Oct 1, 1917. [SF-III; 1216. See: (1917 Oct 1).]


Same / Moodus and Vesuvius / May 8, 9, 1897. [SF-III; 1217. See: (1897 May 8, 9).]


Same / Cinders—Ill / Tornado—N.Y. / June 17, 1857. [SF-III; 1218. See: (1857 June 17).]


Same / Volc, Japan / q, Tenn. / Dec 22, 23, 1920. [SF-III; 1219. See: (1920 Dec 22, 23).]


Same / Great Fireball / Eng / India / Feb. 4, 1920. [SF-III; 1220. See: (1920 Feb 4).]


Same / Vesuvius and frgs on a mt. in France / July 8, 1895. [SF-III; 1221. See: (1895 July 8).]


Same / New Star and Op Mars / Oct 5, 1862. [SF-III; 1222. See: (1862 Oct 5).]


Same / Vesuvius and Dust of Padua / Aug 26, 1834. [SF-III; 1223. See: (1834 Aug 26).]


Same / Op. Mars / q, India, Mexico, Jan. 24, 1852 / Had been [Me}tite, India, Jan 23. [SF-III; 1224. See: (1852 Jan 23, 24).]


Same / Met—Germany / Stone—India / Dec 2, 1852. [SF-III; 1225. See: (1852 Dec 2).]


Same / Trans Mercury / and q., Chile / Nov. 4, 1822. [SF-III; 1226. See: (1822 Nov 4).]


Same / See Rel / q's, Metite. [SF-III; 1227.]


Same / Op Mars / and q and phe, Hungary / Feb 18, 1822. [SF-III; 1228. See: (1822 Feb 18).]


Same / 1822 / Op Mars, Feb 18 / Vesuvius, [Feb] 13-25. [SF-III; 1229. See: (1822 Feb 18, 13-25).]


Same / Venus and det Met / March 9, 1822. [SF-III; 1230. See: (1822 March 9).]


Same / Sunspots and fishes / May 28, 1828. [SF-III; 1231. See: (1828 May 28).]


Same / Vesuvius and stones / Hungary / May 21, 1820. [SF-III; 1232. See: (1820 May 21).]


Same / Vesuvius and Op Mars / Jan 16, 1820. [SF-III; 1233. See: (1820 Jan 16).]


Same / (q and heavy rain) and Sunspot / June 17, 1826. [SF-III; 1234. See: (1826 June 17).]


Same / Etna / q's. China / th. Metite, Scotland / May 17, 1830. [SF-III; 1235. See: (1830 May 17).]


Same / Vesuvius and b. rain, Scotland / March 20 ab, 1828. [SF-III; 1236. See: (1828 ab March 20).]


Same / Eclipse Moon and substance / Germany / Feb 27, 1877. [SF-III; 1237. See: (1877 Feb 27).]


Same / Great Met—Nor. Car / Metite—S. Af. / Dec 9, 1880. [F-III; 1238. See: (1880 Dec 9).]


Same / Moon and great Mets / July, 1882 / See Aug 2. [SF-III; 1239.1. See: (1882 July, Aug 2).]


Same / q., Persia / B. rain, Wales / Ap. 10, 1907. [SF-III; 1239.2. See: (1907 Ap 10).]


Scaffold refuse to work / March 29, 1905. [SF-VII; 1726. See: (1905 March 29).]


Scaffold that would not act / March 29, 1905. [SF-VII; 1731. See: (1905 March 29).]


Scare / + / [Standard], July 30, 1926 / [How a Spy Scare Grew.] [AF-III; 326. Newspaper clipping. (London Standard, July 30, 1926.)]


[Science]:


Sci—Alienists / [Bishop Fights Suit on Care of Fortune] / NY Times, June 3, 1931. [AF-I; 413. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, June 3, 1931.)]


Science / Analysis / [Verdicts on Beach Waters] / [World-Telegram]—Aug 17, 1931. [AF-I; 414. Newspaper clipping. (New York World Telegram, August 17, 1931.)]


Science and Divination. / The Professor who dug where he threw a brick / See Ap. 1, 1924. [AF-I; 415. See: 1924 Ap. 1, (E; 602).]


Sci / Anti / See Nature for reviews of sci. books. [AF-I; 416.]


Sci—Alienists / [Bishop Fights Suit on Care of Fortune] / NY Times, June 3, 1931. [AF-I; 413. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, June 3, 1931.)]


Science / Analysis / [Verdicts on Beach Waters] / [World-Telegram]—Aug 17, 1931. [AF-I; 414. Newspaper clipping. (New York World Telegram, August 17, 1931.)]


Science and Divination. / The Professor who dug where he threw a brick / See Ap. 1, 1924. [AF-I; 415. See: 1924 Ap. 1, (E; 602).]


Sci / Anti / See Nature for reviews of sci. books. [AF-I; 416. See: (Nature.)]


Science / Astro / Nagata's Comet. [AF-I; 417. Comet C/1931 O1.]


Sci / B / Astro fight over[r] Nova Aurigae / See Times, Feb, 1892. [AF-I; 418. (London Times,February 1892.)]


Sci / "Bankruptcy of Science." / Ref 2 more that bids [s]olution / Vel. light = 186,330. [AF-I; 419. (Ref.???)]


Sci / Battle of experts / Duveen-Hahn picture case / Feb 20, 1929. [AF-I; 420. (Check: New York Times, ca. February 20, 1929. Andree Hahn vs. Duveen, regarding Da Vinci artwork.)]


Sci / + / Biological Fact and Theory / Nature Index / Correspondence B. / Vol. 119. [AF-I; 421. (Nature, v. 119.)]


Sci / [quoted paragraph about Copernicus and the solar system, attributed to Proctor, in Encyclopedia Brittannica.] [AF-I; 422. Magazine clipping. (Unidentified source.)]


Science / "Classical Mechanics"—Aviator planning to cross ocean—considering a unifrom wind and his own endurance either constant or diminishing exactly forulably, etc. No accidents can be considered. [AF-I; 423. Ref.???)]


Sci / + / Deviation of elements as whole numbers on basis of Oxygen = 16 / Nature 105-264. [AF-I; 424. Partington, James Riddick. “The Standard of Atomic Weights.” Nature, 105 (April 29, 1920): 264.]


[The following three notes were clipped together by Fort. AF-I: 425 to 427.]


Sci / [Truck Gardener Who Discovered New Comet.] / [New York Times, July 27, 1931]. [AF-I; 425. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, July 27, 1931.)]


[Sci] / {How to Get Name in the Heavens] / 1931, July 24, W. Telegram. [AF-I; 426. Newspaper clipping. (New York World Telegram, July 24, 1931.)]


(Sci) / [Leaves Vegetables to Find New Comet] / [source unidentified]. [AF-I; 427. Newspaper clipping. (Unidentified source???)]


Sci / Dolland disproved Newton's theory. / 1069 / (442). [AF-I; 428. John Dollond developed an achromatic lens that refuted Newton's theories upon optical phenomena. (Dolland, John. "An Account of some Experiments concerning the different Refrangibility of Light." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 50: 733-743.)]


Sci / Economics / Paish / July ]11, 1931]—H. Trib / [Books and Other Things]. [AF-I; 429. Newspaper clipping. (New York Herald Tribune, July 11, 1931.) George Paish.]


Sci / Eng Mec / Savage attack F.R.A.S. on Russell for his moon-shadow story. [AF-I; 430. (Noble, William. English Mechanic, ???) (Henry Chamberlaine Russell and G.D Hirst,  ca. 1879. or dark transit of Callisto on March 6, 1897???)]


[Science] / [Explorer's Confession.] / Ev. News / Sept 13, 1924 / Cast doubt on discovery of S. pole—That too a stunt? [AF-I; 431. Newspaper clipping. (London Evening News, September 13, 1924.)]


Sci / Fake Archa[eology] / Rec of Past MT 7/62. [AF-I; 432.(Records of the Past, 7-62.)]


Science / Fallacy of attraction prop to li[note crumbling] / 368 / (68) / Singer and Behrens. [AF-I; 433. (Singer, Ignattius, and, Berens, Lewis Henry. Some Unrecognized Laws of Nature. London: John Murray, 1897.)]


Sci / Fallibility of Newton / 1062 / (442). [AF-I; 434. (Ref.???)]


Science / "Faraday had made the most extensive additions to human knowledge without passing beyond common arithmetic. / 579 / (597). [AF-I; 435. Jevons, William Stanley. The Principles of Science. 2nd edition. London: Macmillan, 1877, 579. " The labours of Newton could not have been accomplished except by a mind of the utmost mathematical genius; Faraday, on the other hand, has made the most extensive and undoubted additions to human knowledge without ever passing beyond common arithmetic."]


(Sci) / [Planet Found to be Flat as a Pancake] / [source unidentified] / [April 9.] [AF-I; 436. Newspaper clipping, (Unidentified source, April 9.???)]


[S]ci / Geol / Error / Archaeological Journal / 69 / (206) / CA. [AF-I; 437. (Archaeological Journal, 69 (1912): 206.???)]


[The following two notes were clipped together by Fort. AF-I: 438 & 439.]


Science / Geology / ["Horse's Hoof" and "Shoe Sole" Reproduced in Rocks] / [Popular Science Monthly, page 60] / [date unidentified]. [AF-I; 438. Magazine clipping. "'Horse's Hoof' and 'Shoe Sole' Reproduced in Rocks." Popular Science Monthly, 105 (August 1924): 60.]


[Science] / [Geology] / [Events of a Hundred Million Years Ago] / [The Des Moines Capital—Aug[note cut off]]. [AF-I; 439. Newspaper clipping. (Des Moines Capital, August???)]


Science / God—or Gorilla / Alfred McCann / QAV. [AF-I; 440. McCann, Alfred Watterson. God or Gorilla. Devin-Adair, 1922.]


Sci / Handwriting / N.Y. Sun, July 24, 1931 / [Faithful Case Is Opened Again]. [AF-I; 441. Newspaper clipping. (New York Sun, July 24, 1931.)]


Sci / Hering / Foibles and Fallacies of Science / QAC. [AF-I; 442. Hering, Daniel Webster. Foibles and Fallacies of Science. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1924.]


Sci / Illogical / Euclid / Eng Mec 88/212, 236, 259, 282, 592. [AF-I; 443. (English Mechanic, 88: 212, 236, 259, 282, 592.)]


Sci / Inconsistencies in physics textbooks / Science, NS, 40, 67. [AF-I; 444. Blake, Sue Avis. "Some Inconsistencies in Physics Text-Books." Science, n.s., 40 (November 6, 1914): 673.]


Science / (Infntile Paralysis) / Scare R.. '16. [AF-I; 445. (Readers Guide, 1916, "Infantile Paralysis.)]


Science / In NY H. Trib., March 30, 1931, are made public the findings of a questinaire that had been sent by the American Chemical Society to scient[ist]s, 200 of whom had revealed that their method of solving problems was often the "hunch". One told of an idea that had come to him while dodging an automobile. Another told of an idea of an improvement in oil pipe-line coils that had come to him "like a flash", when in church, listening to a sermon. Others told of occupations such as shaving, dressing, fishing, gardening, that were most fruitful of ideas. [AF-I: 446.1, 446.2, 446.3. (New York Herald Tribune, March 30, 1931.)]


Sci—interference / [Stunting Decreed for Boy Giant of 14] / 1931 / [The New York Times]—[April] 2. [AF-I; 447. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, April 2, 1931.)]


Science / "It is an essential part of the theory of gravitation that the proximity of other attracting particles is without effect upon the attraction existing betwen any two molecules.Two pound weights weigh as much together as they do separately." / Nooris, Princ. of Sci, p 422 / That temperature—See 68 (Siagert P[note crumbling] ["Every pair of molecules in the world have, as it were, a private communication, apart from their relations to all other molecules. Another undoubted result of
experience pointed out by Newton is that the weight of a body does not in the least depend upon its form or texture. It may be added that the temperat]ure, electric condition, pressure, state of motion, chem[ical] qualities, and [all] other circumstances concerning matter, except its mass, are indifferent as regards its gravitating power." [AF-I: 448.1, 448.2, 448.3. Jevons, William Stanley. The Principles of Science. 2nd edition. London: Macmillan, 1877, 422.]


(Sci) / Math / (Sub Boat) / 32-17 = +3 / It previously bought at 16 and if Loss = 200 saved on income tax. / That no problems isolated—all bound up in other circumsta[nces]. [AF-I; 449.]


Sci / Math / X = Y (?) / but X = Y rel to A / X = Z rel to B / Such as data that make A a Republican minimized to B and make him a Democrat. [AF-I; 450.]


Sci / McPavy, Arctic explorer, spent funds to "restore living". / Nature 7-311. [AF-I; 451. "Notes." Nature, 7 (February 20, 1873): 310-312, at 311. "We are really sorry to hear that the much-talked-of Arctic expedition of M. Pavy, who was recently fabled to have discovered an Arctic Continent, has vanished into worse than 'thin air.' It is perhaps unprecedented in the annals of science that the funds meant to be devoted to a noble and heroic purpose, should be literally wasted in riotous living. We hear, on too good authority, alas, that M. Pavy's explorations have been confined to certain not unknown phases of  'life' in San Francisco." Octave Pavy's arctic continent discoveries may have only been a newspaper fantasy, (with its polar bears feasting dead mastodons); however, he was to be one of the last victims of the Greeley expedition. "Academy of Science." Daily Alta California, (San Francisco), June 6, 1872, p. 1 c. 2. "Bogus Report of a Polar Expedition." Daily Alta California, (San Francisco), December 21, 1872, p. 1 c. 2. "San Francisco." Chicago Tribune, March 27, 1873, p. 2 c. 3. "That clever sell on the Pavy expedition to the North Pole is still going tho rounds of the press. Its publication was the result of accepting perfunctory correspondence. Tho original letter to the World, purporting to have been based on dispatches from Pavy’s Arctic headquarters, was written by a San Francisco Bohemian, a restless individual who is always incubating some sensation or other." "Arctic Expeditions." Chicago Tribune, May 25, 1872, p. 6 c. 8. "The Arctic expedition of Octave Pavey, the most daring and the most promising of all Arctic expeditions, will start from San Francisco during the coming fortnight. Mr. Pavey takes with, him Dr. Chessmore, of the army, who has passed some six years in the high northern latitudes of Alaska; Captain Micks, the daring seaman who crossed the Atlantic on the raft Nonpareil; and Watkins, a celebrated Rocky Mountain hunter, reputed the best shot in all the wild region around Laramie. He will be provided with a rubber raft, built like the Nonpareil, which can be transported with ease on the land, and yet capable of carrying a large weight on the water. From San Francisco a small schooner will take the expedition to Petropolowski, where dogs' fur and clothing will will be procured, and afterwards to some point on Wrangel’s Island, whence, on sledges, the bold discoverers will pass on to the open Polar Sea, of whose existence M. Pavey is firmly convinced. Launching the raft here, and casting the dogs adrift to shift for themselves, their intention is to make the best way to the coast of Greenland." "Behring's Straits and the North Pole." Daily Alta California, (San Francisco), November 5, 1873, p. 2 c. 1. "Last year we had the promise of an attempt in this direction by Monsieur Pavy, a young Frenchman from New Orleans, who seemed at first, and for a long time, to be dead in earnest in his purpose to make the attempt. We never had any particular confidence in his proposed voyage or journey, chiefly because it did not seem feasible to win a triumph in the way he proposed. From some point to the north, or northwest, perhaps, of Bhering's Straits, he was to take to sleds and to water, whichever might be needed, and to use them perhaps by turns, as their services might become indispenaible. We do not believe that a journey of fifteen hundred miles going, and as many more returning, not taking into account the necessary deviations that might arise, can be made in that way, for many reasons, which will occur to most persons' minds without pointing them out. However, he did not make the attempt. He appeared in earnest for a long time, and waited for funds; but somehow, they did not come, and one day he disappeared in an easterly direction, we believe. Our Bohemian Club dined and toasted him, and did the thing up pretty brown, too, with eloquence, poetry and good cheer; but the Pole did not come this way, nevertheless, and Pavy scarcely paved the way for it."]


Sci / Meteorologist gives no warning. / See Jan 17, 1914. [AF-I; 452. See: 1914 Jan 17, (X: 259).]


Sci / [New Comet Elusive] / 1931 / Sun, [Aug.] 27th. [AF-I; 453. Newspaper clipping. (New York Sun, August 27, 1931.)]


Sci / N.Y. Times, Ap. 8, 1928, [page 16] / [$56,000 Suit Filed Against Mrs. Hall]. [AF-I; 454. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, April 8, 1928, p. 16.)]


Sci / Paleontolog[y] / See McCann, God or Gorilla. / QAV. [AF-I; 455. McCann, Alfred Watterson. God or Gorilla. Devin-Adair, 1922.]


Sci / Plantamour's Comet / 1872. [AF-I; 456. See: 1872 Feb 10, (IV; 663).]


[Sci] / Poor fishermen, etc., and their silver cup. / Sci / ['Holy Grail,' Here to Be Sent to Paris] / [New York Times, March 30, 1931.] [AF-I; 457. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, March 30, 1931.)]


Sci / Predictions of meteors astray / See Col. / Nov 27, 1885. [AF-I; 458. See: (1885 Nov 27).]


Science / Prob 3 bodies / May 9, '14 / Sc. Am. Su. [AF-I; 459. (Scientific American Supplement, May 9, 1914.)]


Sci / See Anti-Jesuit Observatories / Sept 18, 1907. [AF-I; 460. See: 1906 Sept 18, (IX: 439).]


(Sci) / See Eclipse. / q's and seismographs wrong, etc. [AF-I; 461. See: (Eclipse. / q's and seismographs wrong, etc.).]


Science / See Errors of 442. [AF-I; 462. (Ref.???)]


Sci / Self as to astro-technicalities / Not apply mine is a matter of data. What if C. Columbus, examined as to geographical knowledge, been asked about some obscure little river in Sweden or etc. His special data the point. [AF-I; 463.]


[The following two notes were clipped together by Fort. AF-I: 464 & 465.]


Sci / Statistics / [Fisher Disputes Anti-Dry Figuring] / [The New York Times, October 3, 1930.] [AF-I; 464. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, October 3, 1930.)]


[Sci] / [Statistics] [fragment of an article about statistics] / [source unidentified]. [AF-I; 465. Newspaper clipping. (Unidentified source.)]


Sci / [Sun Spots Are Effective] / Ap 25, 1931 / [The New York Times,] [AF-I; 466. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, April 25, 1931.)]


Sci / Suppression of photography / Once a Week 10/370. [AF-I; 467. Carpenter, J. "A Suppressed Art." Once A Week, 10 (March 26, 1864): 368-371, at 370. Boulton, Matthew Piers Watt. Remarks Concerning Certain Pictures Supposed To Be Photographs of Early Date. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1865, 12-13 & 15-16. "Price's story received an apparent confirmation from Dr. Lee, a gentleman residing in Worcestershire, who stated that he had heard from his mother that a peculiar mode of making representations of objects was practised at Soho; that the representations so made were called sun-pictures; that in making them the camera obscura and silver plates were sometimes employed. That a picture of this kind was made of Soho house, before an alteration; and finally that the process was suppressed, from fear of injury to artists." "I have myself heard from my father that the process of copying pictures practised at Soho was suppressed at the instigation of Sir W. Beechey, who considered it injurious to art." "The date of Sir W. Beechey's visit to Soho seems to have been about 1799." "I have also ascertained that several persons heard the mechanical paintings which hung at Soho spoken of by my father as sun-pictures. At the same time my father never intimated any opinion that these pictures were photographs, or similar to photographs. I feel convinced that neither my father nor the late Mr. Watt entertained any belief, or any suspicion, that photography had been practised at an early period at Soho." "It is therefore sufficiently clear that the photographs found in Soho library are modern photographs, made either by Miss Wilkinson or Mr. Alston, about 1840; and that Price in his statements on the subject had recourse to fiction. At the same time it does not seem likely that Price's fiction was entirely baseless. It seems probable that he received his information from Townshend; that Townshend seeing the photograph in Price's possession, believed it to be the so-called 'sun-picture' of Soho house, taken before its alteration, of which mention was made to Dr. Lee by his mother, and at the taking of which Townshend was probably present." "The two photographs on the metal plates, exhibited as ancient photographs, made in the last century, are unquestionably modern photographs, made about 1840." "The paper pictures exhibited are specimens of the process practised under Eginton at Soho, about 1780; but there are great difficulties in the way of supposing that these pictures are photographs, and much which tends to show that they were produced mechanically. There is some evidence tending to show that photographic experiments were made at Soho subsequent to 1790, and that there was communication with Wedgwood on the subject; and it is possible that these may have been the experiments which were shown to Sir W. Beechey, apparently about 1799, and were discontinued at his request. There is no great difficulty in accepting this view, except that caused by the long silence on the subject, especially the silence of my father and the late Mr. Watt, who certainly were ignorant of any practice of photography at Soho.” Some members of the Lunar Society apparently experimented with a "polygraphic" process, (reproducing an image onto paper, possibly by mechanically pressing the paper onto a light-sensitized silver plate), but they could not replicate the images in an economical manner, and abandoned their experiments; whereas, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce produced "points de vue" on a pewter plate polished with light-sensitive bitumen, in 1816, and with improvements to this chemical process, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, (a later business partner with Niépce's son), developed the daguerreotype in 1839.]


Science / Suppression of Photography / Once a Week 10-370. [AF-I; 468. Carpenter, J. "A Suppressed Art." Once A Week, 10 (March 26, 1864): 368-371, at 370. See: Sci / Suppression of photography, (AF-I; 467).]


Sci / Two things equal to same thing are equal to each other. / 2 object[s] equal in weight to another are of equal weight. / Conditionally. Fire one up on moon and leave one here, and no longer equal. [AF-I; 469. Weight is a force acting upon a mass, (whereas mass is a quantity of matter); thus, a mass weighing a kilogram on the Earth, only weighes 165.34 grams upon the Moon, yet it has an equivalent amount of matter in either location.]


Sci / Vagaries of the tides / Sc. Am. S. 54/22239. [AF-I; 470. (Scientific American Supplement, 54-22239.)]


Sci / Vs modern physics to considerable degree / See Prof. L.T. More's "The Limitations of Science". / Circ. Lib., 42nd St. [AF-I; 471. More, Louis Trenchard. The Limitations of Science. New York, Holt, 1915.]


Sci / W.H. Wood, Religion of Science / H.J. Bridges, Taking the Name of Science in Vain / G. McCready, Scientific Blunders. [AF-I; 472. Wood, William Hamilton. The Religion of Science. New York: Macmillan, 1922. Bridges, Horace James. Taking the Name of Science in Vain. New York: Macmillan, 1928. Price, George McCready. A History of Some Scientific Blunders. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1930.]


Scientists / Mistake made by LaPlace pointed out by a boy—but that boy was William R. Hamilton. / See a footnote in DeMorgan's Budget. / on a left hand page. [AF-I; 473. De Morgan, Augustus. A Budget of Paradoxes. 2nd edition. Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 1872, 332. "Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865), the discoverer of quaternions (1852), was an infant prodigy, competing with Zerah Colburn as a child. He was a linguist of remarkable powers, being able, at thirteen years of age, to boast that he knew as many languages as he had lived years. When only sixteen he found an error in Laplace's Mecanique Céleste. When only twenty-two he was appointed Andrews professor of astronomy, and he soon after became Astronomer Royal of Ireland. He was knighted in 1835. His earlier work was on optics, his Theory of Systems of Rays appearing in 1823. In 1827 he published a paper on the principle of Varying Action. He also wrote on dynamics." Graves, Robert Perceval. Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton. London: Longmans, Green, 1882, v. 1, 102-103 & 661-662.]


[Scientists] / [Use of Cumbersome Terms Is Deplored by Scientists] / NY Times, Sept. 21, 1930. [AF-I; 474. Newspaper clipping. ("Use of Cumbersome Terms Is Deplored by Scientists." New York Times, September 21, 1930, s. S p. 3 c. 4-5.)]


Sci / Astro / See indexes, M. Notices, Observatory; and M. Notices, R.A.S., for Errata. [AF-III; 327.]


Sci / Price / A History of Some Scientific Blunders / OAC. [SF-VI; 1483. Price, George McCready. A History of Some Scientific Blunders. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1930.]


[Science Errors]:


[Sci Errors] / Astro / An inconsistent observation / Nature 86-461. [AF-I; 502. “Photographic Determinations of Stellar Parallax.” Nature, 86 (June 1, 1911): 460-461. “The parallax of π4 Orionis is found to be +0.012” ± 0.007", and in the cases of ψ Orionis and S Monocerotis negative parallaxes result from the measures.” Schlesinger, Frank. “Photographic Determination of Stellar Parallax Made with the Yerkes Refractor. IV.” Astrophysical Journal, 33 (1911): 234-259, at 234-237 & 240-241. Apart from the negative parallaxes, the modern parallax of π4 Orionis is 3.1 mas, (or +0.0031”); the modern parallax of ψ2 Orionis, (only identified as “ψ Orionis” by Schlesinger), is 2.87 mas; and, the modern parallax of S Monocerotis is 3.19 mas.]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Arthur Mee['s] book "The Parasite" seized by the Govt. He a Prohibitionist. Argues against other countries sending grain to England where made into alcoholic drink. / Mail and Empire, Toronto, March 11, 1918. [AF-I; 503. (Toronto Mail and Empire, March 11, 1918.)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Chambers review / (roast) / See that Lynn's book on eclipses just out and favored. [AF-I; 504. (Lynn, W.T. Remarkable Eclipses. 1896.) (Chambers review of Lynn's book on eclipses.??? Chambers' The Story of Eclipses was published in 1899.)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Error / Abbot, The Earth and the Stars, p. 210 / That discoverer of No Pers. was Rev. T.D. Anderson. Look up in Nature (1892 / 1901) / That he a M.D. See if initials right. [AF-I; 505. Abbot, Charles Greeley. The Earth and the Stars. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1925, 210. Thomas David Anderson was not an ordained clergyman but worked occasionally as preacher for "pulpit supply," (thus, not a Reverend); and, he obtained a Doctor of Science degree in philology, (not medicine), with a thesis on the subject of "The Latin Conjunctions." Anderson, Thomas David. “The New Star in Auriga.” Nature, 45 (February 18, 1892): 365. Anderson did not identify himself as a "Rev." nor "Dr." in Nature. "The New Star." Scotsman, February 16, 1892, p. 7 c. 4. At the meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, (which Anderson attended), he was identified by Copeland as "the Rev. Thomas D. Anderson, D.Sc. Edinburgh."]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Error? / Duncan, Astronomy, p. 210 / On his computations upon the moon, Newton laid aside his work for six years until he heard of a new determiniation of the size of the earth, made by Picard. [AF-I; 506. Duncan, John Charles. Astronomy. New York: Harper, 1926, 210.]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Error of Newcomb's position of equinox / Nature 116-913. [AF-I; 507. (Nature, 116-913.)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Errors / (+) / Look up eviews of their books in Nature. [AF-I; 508.]


[Sci Errors] / A[stro] / Errors / M.W.R., year 1926 / About 20 corrections noted. [AF-I; 509. (Monthly Weather Review, 1926???)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Errors / Newcomb, in the Reminiscences, ascribes DeMorgan's Budget of Paradoxes to Babbage. [AF-I; 510. (Newcomb. Reminiscences of an Astronomer.)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / (Errors) / See Dec 12, 1896. [AF-I; 511. See: (1896 Dec 12; not found here).]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Errors / See Observatory, index, Errata, vol for 1924, for instance. [AF-I; 512. (Observatoru, 1924, index.???)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Flamsteed vs. Newton / Observatory 24/279. [AF-I; 513. (Observatory, 24-279.)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Law suit for a catalogie of stars and errors by Dr Poters / Sun, 1889, Feb 3-5-2. [AF-I; 514. (New York Sun, February 3, 1889, p. 5 c. 2.)]


[Sci Errors] Astro / Mistakes / Fletcher, and C.R., Nov 11, Dec 11, 1836 / But verify see not I the mistake. [AF-I; 515. (Ref.???) See: (1836 Nov 11, Dec 11).]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Mistakes / Humboldt, writing upon the "star" of A.D. 389, says that Crespinianus saw it. But C. was born about 1100 years later. / Observatory—7-18. [AF-I; 516. (Observatory, 7-18.)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Mistakes / If mine mentioned—say usual inefficiency and tell some overlooked. / [note cut off]cz. [AF-I; 517. (Ref.???)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Mistakes / Knowledge 8/253. [AF-I; 518. (Knowledge, 8-253.)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Personal Equation / Poor—Gravitation Versus Relativity, p. 99 / From many observations upon the sun, Auwers found that the measured diameter of the sun varied with the number of visible sunspots. A variable sun—in any respect—is versus one of the fundamentals of the science of astronomy. Auwers revised his findings. He gave to each observer just whatever "personal equation" could be considered to nullify his observations. He made some of the observers' "equations" vary with time, if that could cancel. To otherswho had made abrupt observations, he assigned abrupt changes in their own habits of observing. So he reduced the disagreeable observations. As Prof Poor saysm it is possible to get any pre-determined result in this way. / 132+ / Case of a man not want to know of imperfections in his business—one detective reports 2 thefts one week, 4 next week, 5 next week. The owner, rather than to believe, works out the formula of the detective's suspiciousness as almost denoting. Another detective reports no thefts one weekm none next weekm six thefts next week. The owner says that he is of abrupt suspiciousness. The analoy is of an owner receiving reports from scores of detectives and in every case assigning an equation to the detective's suspiciousness. [AF-I: 519.1 to 519.56. (Poor. Gravitation Versus Gravity, p. 99, 132+???)]


[Sci Errors] // Astro . Peters vs Borst / decision for Peters / 1889, Sun, Nov. 9-3-5. [AF-I; 520.. (New York Sun, November 9, 1889, p. 3 c. 5.)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Pogson censured by govt for not giving cyclone warnings / Nature 6-378. [AF-I; 521. “Notes.” Nature, 6 (September 5, 1872): 377-379, at 378.]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Proctor vs Denning / Knowledge 8/130. [AF-I; 522. (Knowledge, 8-130.)]


[The following two notes were clipped together by Fort, AF-I: 523 & 524.]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Proctor vs Holden—Sid Mess 6-210 / (June, 1887) / Prof Holden, of the Lick Obs.—that Proctor had attacked him in the San Francisco Examiner. Seems he had unfavorably reviewed a book of Mr Proctor's in Atlantic Monthly, Sept., '74, and had mentioned titles of other books by Mr Proctor that displeased him—Mr Proctor objected that as to one of them he had never written a book with such a title. Prof Holden apologizes for the error. Mr Proctor back with "various attacks upon me personally". Says he is honorable person, or at least had been honored, having been, for instance, selected as one of the Foreign Associates of the Roy Ast. Soc., an organization which had "forced mr. Proctor out of the position of its Secretary". This is Prof Holden's answer in the Examiner, copied in Sid Mess. S, page 259—Proctor to theSid Mess. Says Proctor that the review was written anonymously at a time when Prof Holden was "absolutely sickening" him "by false compliments"—review was full of untruths, "opened with a gross untruth"—"String of untruths."—R.A.S. had never forced him from his position and Prof H. had always known this. "Prof. Holden" owes it entirely to me that his name, when suggested for a Foreign Associateship of the Society, was not rejected with contempt." "Lastly, it is well known my real offense with Prof. Holden was that I wrote the astronomy of the American Cyclopedia." / Sid Mess 7/90—Edward Knobel, Secretary of the R.A.S., writes as to Prof Holden owing the "honor" to Proctor—"Absolutely erroneous. Prof Holden was nominated by the Council of the R.A.S. At the time Mr. P. had not been a member of the Council for 5 years. When the balloting took place—"it does not appear that Mr. P. was present." "Not in the remotest way" could his election be considered due to Mr. P. / Proctor—p. 17—Mr Knobel's letter correct in every detail—especially in saying that he had done nothing "positively to advance Prof. H's election. He meant that were it not for his silence Prof. H's name would have been rejected. / See Knowledge, April number, under Gossip, for whatever Proctor changes, / Point is their mistakes, inaccuracies, distortions as to data that can be checked up. [AF-I: 523.1 to 523.11. (Sidereal Messnger, 6 (June 1887): 210, & 259.) (Sidereal Messenger, 7-90.) (Sidereal Messenger, p. 17.???) (Knowledge, April 1888.???)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Proctor-Holden—Observatory, March, 1888—Glad to see that Mr. Knobel had written to the Sidereal Messenger "with reference to the abusive and incorrect statements made in that Journal by Mr. Proctor" as to Prof. Holden's election. Page 236—that in ref to this, Mr. Maunder had received a letter fromMr. Proctor. "We regret that the intemperate tone of this letter does not allow us to print it as it stands." / In Knowledge, Ap., 1888, Proctor tells his story. Calling Prof. Holden "the fellow", say[s] that the "professor" had appealed to Mssrs Knobel and Maunder," and in issue of Aug, 1888, says that he had only surmised that. Then, in August issue, says that he had only surmised that the "Professor" had so appealed, and having been informed by Mssrs Knobel and Maunder that the "professor" had no so appealed to them, he publishes their contradiction. [AF-I: 524.1 to 524.4. (Observatory, March, 1888, and, p. 236.) (Knowledge, April, 1888.) (Knowledge, August, 1888.)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Prof. Marvin / See Oct 16, 1907. / Jan 23, 1909. [AF-I; 525. See: 1907 Oct 16, (IX: 870 & 871), and, 1909 Jan 23, (IX: 1239 & 1240).]


[Sci Errors] / (Astro) / Reserve / Prof Holden's unreasonable claim ag Trustees, Lick Observatory, for $12,000 for services—"Nothing more heard of it" when Trustees refused. / Newcomb, Reminiscences, p. 194. [AF-I; 526. (Newcomb, Reminiscences of an Astronomer, p. 194.)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Reserve / Serviss / See if be false story. / Nov., 1882 / Not in NY? [AF-I; 527. See: (1882 Nov.).]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Reserved / Milne accused of swiping an invention / Nature 33-438 / p. 534. [AF-I; 528. “An Earthquake Invention.” Nature, 32 (July 2, 1885): 213. Milne, John. “An Earthquake Invention.” Nature, 32 (October 15, 1885): 573-574. Milne, John. “An Earthquake Invention.” Nature, 33 (March 11, 1886): 438-439. Stevenson, D.A. “An Earthquake Invention.” Nature, 33 (April 8, 1886): 534.]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Russell roasted / E. Mec 29/60. [AF-I; 529. (English Mechanic, 29-60.)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Sci. Op., Feb 16, 1870 / As the Observatory of Paris, where Leverrier was Director, his "unbearable brusqueness and jealousy" brought about a Memorial from his colleagues, addressed to the Minister of Public Instruction, stating that all would resign or Leverrier would have to. There was an investigation. Leverrier was dismissed. [AF-I: 530.1, 530.2. (Scientific Opinion, February 16, 1870.)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / See early computations of Donati's Comet. / All wrong. [AF-I; 531. (Ref.???)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / See if make Prof C. F Marvin wrong. / Seismograph—be sure nothing in S. Amer, Jan 23, 1909. [AF-I; 532. See: 1909 Jan 23, (IX: 1239 & 1240).]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / Trouble with Holden / See San Fran Chron, ab June 15, 1892. [AF-I; 533. (San Francisco Chronicle, ca. June 15, 1892.)]


[Sci Errors] / Astro / vs Lockyer / Eng Mec 73-245. [AF-I; 534. (English Mechanic, 73-245.)]


[Sci Errors] / Astronomer / errors? / Prof John C. Duncan, Astronomy, p. 369, says of Darwin's Origin of Species, "published in 1858". / Look this up. 1859? [AF-I; 535. Duncan, John Charles. Astronomy. New York: Harper, 1926, 369. The first edition of Origin of Species was published on November 24, 1859.]


[The following four notes were clipped together by Fort. AF-I: 536 to 539.]


[Sci Errors] / [Inclination] / Inclination Eros so great that for a time in 1900 so far north that it never set in northern middle latitudes and passed the meridian north of the zenith. / Newcomb, Astronomy for Everybody, p. 148. [AF-I; 536. Newcomb, Simon. Astronomy for Everybody. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1903, 148.]


[Sci Errors] / [Inclination] / Inclination of Pallas = 28 degrees. / Newcomb, Astronomy for Everybody, p. 194. [AF-I; 537. Newcomb, Simon. Astronomy for Everybody. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1903, 194.]


[Sci Errors] / Inclination / The (4) satellites of Uranus move almost perpendicularly to the orbit of Uranus. / Newcomb, Astronomy for Everybody, p. 228. [AF-I; 538. Newcomb, Simon. Astronomy for Everybody. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1903, 228.]


[Sci Errors] / [Inclination] / Solar Motion / Orbit of Pallas is inclined 35 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. / Todd, Astronomy, p. 258 / He says average inclination of all asteroids is about 8 degrees. [AF-I; 539. Todd, David Peck. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies. New York: P.F. Collier, 1922, 258.]


[Sci Errors] / Reserve / Astro / Criticism / book of Prof. See's / Nature 87-275. [AF-I; 540. “Cosmical Physics.” Nature, 87 (August 31, 1911): 275.]


[Sci Errors] / (Reserve) / Astro Error / Trans of Mercury for 1907 / Denning, Observatory 29/418, = Nov. 12 / Lynn, 30/383, = Nov. 14 / See if, end of vol, errors corrected. [AF-I; 541. (Observatory, 29-418, and errors corrected.)]


[Sci Errors] / Reserve/ Astro errors / E Mec 80/299. [AF-I; 542. (English Mechanic, 80-299.)]


[Sci Errors] / Reserve / Astro errors in a book / E Mec 91/83. [AF-I; 543. (English Mechanic, 91-83.)]


[Sci Errors] / Reserve / Astro errors / Observatory 24/386. [AF-I; 544. (Observatory, 24-386.)]


[Sci Errors] Reserve / Astro errors / Observatory 37 / See Errata in Index—Have correted ten errors. [AF-I; 545. (Observatory, v. 37.)]


[Sci Errors] / Reserve / Astro mistakes / Observatory 11/404. / [note cut off]ly. / [note cut off]y / [note cut off] by George Hunt / [note cut off] /on / [note cut off]t. [AF-I; 546. (Observatory, 11-404.)]


[Sci Errors] / Reserve / Astro quarrels / vs Newton / Phil Mag 3/8/139. [AF-I; 547. (Philosophical Magazine, s. 3 v. 8 p. 139.)]


[Sci Errors] / Reserve / B.A.A. of Sci quarrel / Astro Reg 13/273. [F-I; 548. Astronomical Register, 13-273.)]


[Sci Errors] / Res / G.B. Shaw quoted and pictured in a pat. med. advt. for Foramint, / Daily Mail, Nov. 14, 1912. [AF-I; 549. (London Daily Mail, November 14, 1912.)]


[Sci Errors] / Reserve / Look for reviews of their books in Nature, etc. [AF-I; 550.]


[Sci Errors] / Res. / Marconi / April etc., 1913. [AF-I; 551. See: (1913 April, etc.; not found here).]


[Sci Errors] / Reserve / Sci Mistakes / See list of corrections, B.A. 1880, Luminous Meteors. [AF-I; 552. (Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1880.)]


[Sci Errors] / Reserve / Sir A.C. Doyle as an investigator. See how whitewashed, Bristol, 1921. In Daily Express, Jan. 4, 1921, another Bristol boy tried to commit suicide by setting his head on fire and rotting in fire so sent to hospital. [AF-I; 553. (London Daily Express, January 4, 1921.)]


[Sci Errors] / Reserve / NY Herald Tribune, Oct [7, 1927] / [25 Authors Institute Wanamaker's Librarium] / Authors' amusing publicity at a dry goods store. Srl would carry out idea—wear large white medallion in street. / So Duinrte stood test of time—great d[eal] of his now rega[rded] as firstr[ate]. / [T.T.] trans / So I would carry out idea—wear large white medallion in street. [AF-I: 554.1, 554.2. (New York Herald Tribunem October 7, 1927.)]


[Sci Errors] / Reserve / Typo. errors in Bird's "Einstein's Theories of Relatively" / axactly for exactly, p. 312 / (So if I'm not so very "axact" myself.) / p 345—"the universe we line in" for "live in". / If use, run a jeer—"axtraordinary", etc. [AF-I; 555. (Bird. Einstein's Theories of Relativity, p. 312, etc.)]


[Sci Errors] / Res / Vs Prof Larkin / Science, N.S., 24/178. [AF-I; 556. (Science, n.s, 24-178.)]


[Sci Errors] / Reserve / Weather Bureau / Tornado, 200 killed, for instance. / Master, etc., at the time writing—technical. [AF-I; 557. (Ref.???)]


[Sci Errors] / Reserve / Wells, Outline of Hist, 409 / Calabria, "the heel of Italy," = toe. [AF-I; 558. (Wells, Herbert George. Outline of History, p. 409.)]


[Sci Errors] / Reserve / Willis L. Moore / March 24, 1913 / See N.Y. papers. [AF-I; 559. (New York newspapers, ca. March 24, 1913.)]


[Sci Errors] / Sci / Charge of theft of ob ag Dr Gould / M Notices 42/106 / See Nature. [AF-I; 560. Bone, William. “On an Object seen near Comet b, 1881, on June 10, 1881.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 42 (January 1882): 105-106. “Gould's Comet-Observations on June 11.” Nature, 24 (August 11, 1881): 342.]


[Sci Errors] // Sci / Errors / Herschel recants. / +1065 / +1073 / (442). [AF-I; 561. (Ref.???)]


[Sci Errors] / Sci / Errors / In Rept B.A., 1880, are published more than 3 pages of corrections of errors, in observations upon meteors in the reports for 1878 and 1879. [AF-I; 562. (Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1880.)]


[Sci Errors] / Sci / Errors of Geology / Eng Mec 7/234. [AF-I; 563. (English Mechanic, 7-234.)]


[Sci Errors] / Sci / For the accusation of tampering with photographs and falsifying drawings, made against Prof. Ernst Haeckel, see McCann, God—or Gorilla—p 156—"Haeckel's confession that six or eight percent of his drawings were falsified, but no more than six or eight percent, appeared in the Berliner Volks Zeitung, December 29, 1908." [AF-I: 564.1, 564.2. (McCann. God or Gorilla, p. 156.)]


[Sci Errors] / Science / Geol / See Raind Beache / Mar. 21, '08 / S.A. Sup / [Important]. [AF-I; 565. "Fort's brackets." (Scientific American Supplement, ???) See: (1908 March 21).]


[Sci Errors] / Sci / Kammerer obituary and outline of his work / Nature 118-635. [AF-I; 566. (Nature, 118-635.)]


[Sci Errors] / Sci / Mistake / Index, Nature, vol. 118 / Astronomical Notes—Stars—'Proper Notions of Southern Stars,' for Motions. / proper notions. [AF-I; 567. (Nature, v. 118.)]


[Sci Errors] / Sci / Mistakes / In the "Nineteenth Century", October, Prof H. Wildon Carr (Ca??) gives 5,000 miles per minute as the earth's orbital speed. It should be 1110. / Nature 118-641. [AF-I; 568. (Nature, 118-641.)]


[Sci Errors] / (Science) / Washington killed by physicians—bleeding, / 545 / (628). [AF-I; 569. (Ref.???)]


[Sci Errors] / [Science] / J.F Chambers—p. 358, vol. 3 / "Jobbery and Cliqueism." / If so in their politics, why observations. [AF-I; 570. (Chambers, J.F. ???. v. 3, p. 358.)]


Sea / Ship out of reckoning / All Year Round 50/323. [AF-III; 328. (All Year Round, 50-323.)]


[SS (Sea Serpent)]:


[S.S.] / 1931 / May 24—N.Y. Times / [Won't Let Ogopogo Die.] [AF-III; 525. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, May 24, 1931.)]


[S.S.] / 1931 / [Lake Monster Believed Dead] / [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 20.] / Sent by C.S. McDaniel of Pittsburgh. [AF-III; 526. Newspaper clipping. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 20, 1931.)]


[S.S.] / 1931 [See a Sea Serpent] / N.Y. Sun, May 25. [AF-IIIp 527. Newspaper clipping, (2 copies). (New York Sun, May 25, 1931.)]


[S.S.] / 1877 / (July 14) / S S and submarine volcano / of July 14, 1877 / Sc Am 37/20, 71. [AF-III; 528. “The Sea Serpent Sighted from a Royal Yacht.” Scientific American, n.s., 37 (July 14, 1877): 20. “The Sea Monster.” Scientific American, n.s. 37 (August 4, 1877): 71. "The Sea Serpent." London Graphic, June 30, 1877, p. 8.]


(S.S.) / 1881 / Sept 4 / dispatch from Kingston / Toronto Mail, Sept 15-2-2 / In the Rideau Canal by passengers on a ship from Ottawa to Kingston. Seen and chased at night by the ship but went up an inlet in which was seen by light of camp fires. Guesses of length 25 to 40 feet. Head like a dog's with a long tuft of hair in each side of its nose. [AF-III: 529.1, 529.2. (Toronto Mail, September 15, 1881, p. 2 c. 2.)]


[The following sox notes were clipped together by Fort. AF-III: 530 to 535.]


[S.S.] / S L / 1892 / July 16 / Chic. Trib. 17-5-2 / Long dark object like barrels lashed end to end moving at high speed in Lake Erie. Ac to observer, or alleging observer, it was more of a gigantic lizard than serpent. [AF-III; 530. (Chicago Tribune, July 17, 1892, p. 5 c. 2.)]


[S.S.] / 1892 / July 17th / Toronto Globe of the 23rd—that upon the evening [of] the 17th, at Kingston, Mr. G. Parks abd his wife went out upon the lake for a sail, They were startked by a rushing sound, "They beheld an awful sight. A serpent of huge proportions was heading for the boat. It held its head in the air and its eyes looked like balls of fire." It is said that it "meant business" but that Mr. P. pounded it with an oar, whereupon it disappeared with a sound like a buzz saw. [AF-III: 531.1, 531.2. (Toronto Globe, July 23, 1892.)]


S.S. / 1892 / July 17 / Huge serpent reported from Lake Ontario / World 23-1-3. [AF-III; 532. (New York World, July 23, 1892, p. 1 c. 3.)]


S S / 1892 / July 24 / [source unidentified], 5-3 / Capt Jenkins, of the steam barge Fenton, said that, in crossing Lake Erie, he saw a serpent 30 feet long. [AF-III; 533. (Unidentified source, July 24, 1892, p. 5 c. 3.)]


S S / Land / 1892 / July 13 / Capt. Woods, of schooner Madeline Downing, saw terrible-looking object in Lake Erie, snake-like—ab 50 feet long. [AF-III; 534. (Ref.???)]


S S / 1892 / July 16 / B Eagle of / On 13th of July, Capt Woods, of schooner Madeline Madeline Dowling, on Lake Erie, between Toledo and Buffalo, saw a commotion in midst of calm water. A serpent ab 50 feet long and 4 in circumference. / Eagle, 23rd—that at the 23rd, a man and his wife in a sail boat off Kingston, Ontario, saw a serpent ab. 30 feet long. Thing hissed like a buzz saw at them. [AF-III: 535.1, 535.2. (Brooklyn Eagle, July 16, 1892.) (Brooklyn Eagle, July 23, 1892.)]


S S / 1876 / March 18 / Story in Bombay Gazette of Ap. 17, of a monster sea serpent that attacked a vessel ab 1500 miles east of Bombay. / Copied in N.Y. Times, May 21-7-3. [AF-III; 536. (Bombay Gazette, April 17, 1876.) (New York Times, May 21, 1876, p. 7 c. 3.)]


[S.S.] / 1901 / Aug 18 / China Sea / S.S. / Zoologist 4/6-159. [AF-III; 537. (Zoologist, s. 4 v. 6 p. 159.)]


[S.S.] / 1902 / ab July 13 / S S / Australia / Zoologist 4-6-360. [AF-III; 538. (Zoologist, s. 4 v. 6. p. 360.)]


[S.S.] / 1897 / July 11 / Eagle, 5-6 / S.S. [AF-III; 539. (Brooklyn Eagle, July 11, 1897, p. 5 c. 6.)]


[S.S.] / 1899 / Nov. 16 / Eagle, 5-2 / 7-28-6 / S.S. [AF-III; 540. (Brooklyn Eagle, November 16, 1899, p. 5 c. 2.) (Brooklyn Eagle, November??? 7, 1899, p. 28 c. 6.)]


S S / Land / 1899 / July 12 / "A large, black object about 12 feet long, with a number of large feet or fins, and big eyes and mouth," was seen floating on the Wabash near Merom, Ind, and captured. / Sun 16-4-3, from Chicago Inter-Oc. [AF-III; 541. (New York Sun, July 16, 1899, p. 4 c. 3.)]


[S.S.] / + / 1895 / Jan 11 / N.Y. World, 13th, p ?. col. 5 / S.S. ab 60 feet long in Traverse Bay, Lake Superior. [AF-III; 542. (New York World, January 13, 1895, p. ??? c. 5.)]


[S.S.] / 1897 / Ap. 19 / at sea / S S or obj with lights on it / Oct 28, 1902. [AF-III; 543. See: (1898 Ap. 19), and, (1902 Oct 28).]


S.S. / + / 90 feet long in Hudson River / N.Y. Herald, 1870, May 14-8-4. [AF-III; 544. (New York Herald, May 14, 1870, p. 8 c. 4.)]


S.S. / 1921 / Feb / S S / C. Fulton, Robbinsdale, Minn. / [undated letter to Fort, from Fulton]. [AF-III; 545. (Letter; Fulton, C., to Fort; no date).]


[S.S.] / [Sea Monster Caught by Cuban Fishermen] / N.Y. Tiimes, March 4, 1928. [AF-III; 546. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, March 4, 1928, s. S  p. 158 c. 3.)]


[S.S.] / 1840 / Sept 15 / LT], 7-c / 15-6-e / S.S. [AF-III; 547. (London Times, September 15, 1840, p. 7 c. 3.) (London Times, September 15, 1840, p. 6 c. 5.)]


(S.S.) / 1891 / (Dec 16) / Times of, (7-e) / "A dead sea serpent, about 60 feet long," that was found on the beach at Avoid Point, near Coffin Bay, South Australia, by the Bishop of Adelaide. Head ab. 5 feet longᾸsnake-like—tail resembled a whale's. 2 blow-holes like a whale's. [AF-III; 548. (London Times, December 16, 1891, p. 7 c. 5.)]


S.S. / Sketch of / Harper's Weekly, 1860, no. 166. / 1811 / spring / Mary Reynolds / See Watseka Wonder, July 11, 1877. [AF-III; 549. (Harper's Weekly, 1860, no. 166.) (Watseka Wonder reference???)]


S S / 1875 / NY Times / Aug 5-3-3 / 12-5-4 / 30-8-5. [AF-III; 550. (New York Times, August 5, 1875, p. 3 c. 3.) (New York Times, August 12, 1875, p. 5 c. 4.) (New York Times, August 30, 1875, p. 8 c. 5.)]


S S / Unknown sea monster 101 feet long / Ap 26, 1877 / Oban, Scotland / N.Y. Times, May 12-2-7. [AF-III; 551. (New York Times, May 12, 1877, p. 2 c. 7.)]


[The following two notes were clipped together by Fort. AF-III: 552 & 553.]


[S.S.] / 1808 / Sept / Stronsa animal / In Jan, 1849, Editor of the Zoologist, in Zoologist 7-2358, asked for informaation as to whereabouts of the bones, and for more information. / p. 2397, someone answers that the bones were in 2 museums in Edinburgh and that ac to Prof. Goodsir they were undoubtedly the bones of a shark. He argues that no well-educated person saw the animal, and doubts details, and says if not a shark certainly not the sea serpent, which, if it does exist, will most likely be found to be allied to the Plesiosauri. There follows 4 affidavits by inhabitants of Stronsa upon the unknown animal, ab 55 feet long, that was seen by them at different times and in different stages of mutilation and putridity. Different descripts of—six arms, wings, paws—flesh "without the least resemblance or affinity to fish". One of them—"no appearance of fins about the neck or breast or other parts of the body except the six paws already described. Then a letter from the Rev. Mr. Maclean of Eigg Island upon a living monster that he had seen 3 months earlier. To him it looked from 70 to 80 feet long. Its head is sdescribed as monstrous—of the carcass as very small. [AF-III: 552.1 to 552.6. (Zoologist, 7-2358, 2397.)]


S S / Animal / 1808 / (Sept) / Mems Wernerian Nat Hist Soc., 1-418 / Dr Barclay read a paper upon form of the vertabrae taken from an animal that was cast ashore on the island of Stronsa, one of the Orkneys, Sept., 1808, also mentioning that he had specimens of its mane. Another naturalist who had written: "It is of importance to science that it should be ascertained that this fish is not a new animal unlike any of the ordinary productions of nature." [AF-III: 553.1, 553.2. (Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, 1: 418.)]


S S / 1817, '19, '20 / S S near Boston/ Zoologist 7/2359 / This for horse-mackerel caught of [which] it was said that all time only been this fish. [AF-III; 554. (Zoologist, 7-2359.)]


[S.S.] / 1830 / June 3 / [LT], 2-e / S.S. [AF-III; 555. (London Times, June 3, 1830, p. 2 c. 5.)]


S S / 1833 / May 15 / off Halifax / Account of army officers of a sea serpent, snake-like—ab. 80 feet long / Zoologist 5/1714. [AF-III; 556. (Zoologist, 5-1714.)]


S [S] / 1835 / June 15 / Lake Ontario, near Kingston Harbor—Great serpent, ab 78 feet long, dark blue, mottled with brown. / L.T., July 28/7/c. [AF-III; 557. (London Times, July 28, 1835, p. 7 c. 3.)]


[S.S.] / 1835 / July 28 / [LT], 7-e / Aug 12-4-d / S.S. / Lake Ontario. [AF-III; 558. (London Times, July 28, 1835, p. 7 c. 5.) (London Times, August 12, 1835, p. 4 c. 4.)]


S.S. / or floating obj. / (+) / 1840 / Ap. 21 / Capt. D'Abnour, of the Ville de Rochefort, ac to the Journal du Havre, Sept 15, 1840, copied in the Zoologist, 5/1716 / Gulf of Mexico—ab 24 N Lat and 90 W. Long / Saw something like a long chain of rocks—looked like a reef but the parts changed position. With a telescope he saw "a long chain of enormous rings, resembling a number of barrels linked together, and in form very much like the back of a silkworm. At one end a tail which "appeared to wind itself up and repose on part of the object "itself". At the other extremity he saw a membrance rising about six feet. Also something like an antenna, rising 24 feet, terminated by a crescent at least 15 feet from one point to the other. He approached no nearer. He believed it to be a serpent at least 300 feet long, Ni sign of life mentioned. Thing may have been a "foreign" vessel. [AF-III: 559.1 to 559.4. (Zoologist, 5-1716.)]


[S.S.] / 1906 / Oct 4 / D. Express of / S.S. 150 feet long reported by 2 policemen as seen in Stonehaven Bay, Scotland. [AF-III; 560. (London Daily Express, October 4, 1906.)]


[S.S.] / 1817 / Oct 24 / [LT], 2-c / 30-3-c / Boston / S.S. [AF-III; 561. (London Times, October 24, 1817, p. 2 c. 3.) (London Times, October 30, 1817, p. 3 c. 3.)]


[S.S.] / 1899 / March 2 / Telegraph, too, records that, as was hinted at in its columns, the Zoologist of the Sydney Museum had identified the bones as of the common, zithoid whale. [AF-III; 562. (London Daily Telegraph, March 2, 1899.)]


[S.S.] / 1857 / Feb. 16 / S.S. off Brighton / Land and Water, Oct. 20, 1877. [AF-III; 563. (Land and Water, October 20, 1877.)]


[S.S.] / 1879 / Sept 4 / NY Times, Sept 10, 1879 / (+) / Capt. and Crew rescued in small boats—story that their vessel had been sunk, ab 47 Lat N, 43 W Long, Sep. 4, 1879, by a monster. / 462 tons register / What little of its back was seen was much too round for that of a whale. [AF-III; 564. (New York Times, September 10, 1879, p. 8.)]


S S / 1923 / July 16 / D. Express, 1-3—that two motorists, Mr George E Locke, of Anhel City, Nebraska, and Mr Robert Cooke, a rancher, told of having seen in Echo Lake, near Hay City, Nebraska, a huge animal splashing tremendously—neck like a giraffe's—one horn. [AF-III; 565. (London Daily Express, July 16, 1923. p. 1 c. 3.) (Newcastle Morning Herald, December 15, 1923, p. 3 c. 7; reported in New York Herald, could be later date than July; also, Angel City, instead of Anhel City???)]


S S / 1906 / [March] 18 / D. Mail of March 20-5-3 / Reported by Capt. Rathbone, of the S-S Trooper, one of the Manchester-to-London steamers. Saw off Dungeness, night of 18th, serpent-like monster, fully 50 feet long. But it had ea[rs]. [AF-III; 566. (London Daily Mail, March 20, 1906, p. 5 c. 3.)]


[S.S.] / S L / 1906 / March 22 / Grimsby Telegraph of / Capt Rathbone, of S.S. Trooper, told of having passed within a few feet of object, off Dungeness. Ab 50 feet long and a foot in diameter. Had 2 eyes and 2 small ears. [AF-III; 567. (Grimsby Telegraph, March 22, 1906.)]


S S / 1912 / Oct 17 / 4 p.m. / Off African coast, steamship Dover Castle—In Cape Times, Oct 29, letter from Mr. A. Wilmot, former member of the Cape Legislative Council (ac to "Nature"), writes as chairman of a committee, giving names of the other observers—saw head and neck of a monster sticking out of the sea, ab. 14 feet, ab. 1 and ½ miles away. Says absurd to talk about 5 independent witnesses having mistakenly seen dolphins, sea-birds, seaweed, etc. [AF-III: 568.1, 568.2. (Cape Times, October 29, 1912.) “Notes.” Nature, 90 (December 26, 1912): 467-472, at 469.]


[S.S.] / 1912 / Oct 17 / S.S. / Gulf of Guinea / Nature 90/469. [AF-III; 569. “Notes.” Nature, 90 (December 26, 1912): 467-472, at 469.]


[S.S.] / 1911 / Jan 5 / Unknown sea monster, 18 feet long, captured in nets, near Toulon. / D. Mail 6-5-3. [AF-III; 570. (London Daily Mail, January 6, 1911, p. 5 c. 3.)]


[S.S.] / 1906 / Aug 7, etc. / Times of / Sea Creature / No Good. [AF-III; 571. (London Times, August 7, 1906.)]


[S.S.] / 1908 / June 24 / evening / S. Serp / Gulf of Mexico / NY Times, July 1-1-2. [AF-III; 572. (New York Times, July 1, 1908, p. 1 c. 2.)]


[S.S.] / 1846 / Aug 8 / S S / Norway or Sweden / Zoologist 5/1607. [AF-III; 573. "The Great Sea Serpent." Zoologist, 5 (1847): 1604-1608, at 1607-1608. Between the islands of Sartor Leer and Tös, and in Bjornfjord, near Bergen, Norway.]


[S.S.] / (+) / 1848 / Aug 6 / The "Daedalus" / S.S. / Zoologist 6/2306, etc. / P.P. 2038. [AF-III; 574. (Zoologist, 6:2306, etc.)]


[S.S.] / 1848 / Aug 6 / See Ill. London News, Oct 28, for sketch ac to Capt Mc's description. [AF-III; 575. (Illustrated London News, October 28, 1848.)]


[S.S.] / 1848 / Aug 6 / about 1000 miles from Island of St Helena / In Times, Oct. 28, 1848, Edward Drummond, Lieut., H.M.S. Daedalus, writes that "most remarkable fish" was seen—60 feet in length. Visible—watched 20 minutes. / When nearest, ab 100 yards away. / Times, Oct 13 / Accounts by Capt M'Quhae, of the Daedalus—"An enormous serpent ab sixty feet of the body visible. [AF-III: 576.1, 576.2. (London Times, October 28, 1848.)]


[S.S.] / 1849 / Jan 22 / [LT], 8-e / S.S. [AF-III; 577. (London Times, January 22, 1849, p. 8 c. 5.)]


[S.S.] / 1849 Feb 18 / off mouth St John's, Florida / S.S. / Zoologist 7/2459. [AF-III; 578. (Zoologist, 7-2459.)]


[S.S.] / 1849 / May 8 / [LT], 8-d / S.S. [AF-III; 579. (London Times, May 8, 1849, p. 8 c. 4.)]


[S.S.] / 1849 / July 9 / [LT], 8-e / S.S. [AF-III; 580. (London Times, July 9, 1849, p. 8 c. 5.)]


[S.S.] / 1850 / Ap. 16 / [LT], 7-f / 23-5-f / S.S. ashore / (?) / Have I? / 22-5-e / Ap. 4-5-a / 9-8-d / 16-5-f / May 11-5-a / June 6-5-b. [AF-III; 581. (London Times, 1850: Ap. 16-7-f / 23-5-f / March or April??? 22-5-e / Ap. 4-5-a / 9-8-d / 16-5-f / May 11-5-a / June 6-5-b.)]


[S.S.] / 1850 / Aug 24 / [LT], 6-d / 21-5-c / The S.S. [AF-III; 582. (London Times, August 24, 1850, p. 6 c. 4.) (London Times, August 21, 1850, p. 5 c. 3.)]


[S.S.] / 1850 / Sept / Times / S S hoax, ac to 25-5-a. [AF-III; 583. (London Times, September 25, 1850, p. 5 c. 1.)]


S S / hoax / 1852 / Jan 13 / in Zoologist 10/3427, from N.Y. Times of March 10, copied from the Tribune / Story of a sea serpent killed by crew of a vessel ab 3 S. Lat, 132 W. Long. Editor of the Zoologist says, "Very like a hoax, but well drawn up." Details—"It was a male; the length 103 feet, 7 inches; 19 feet, 1 inch around the neck; 24 feet, 6 inches around the shoulders. / Details of the dissection given—"One of the serpent's lungs was three feet longer than the other." [AF-III: 584.1, 584.2, 584.3. (Zoologist, 10-3427.) (New York Times, March 10, 1852.) (New York Tribune, ca. 1852.)]


S S / 1854 / Sept 4 / Lat 38 S / Long 13 E / L.T., 1855, Feb 16-8-d / from log of the British brig Abeona / Monster ab. 180 feet long. Under his jaws slack skin like pouch of a pelican. [AF-III; 585. (London Times, February 16, 1854, p. 8 c.4.)]


[S.S.] / 1852 / March 10 / [LT], 8-a / 11-8-f / Capture of the S.S. [AF-III; 586. (London Times, March 10, 1852, p. 8 c. 1.) (London Times, March 11, 1852, p. 8 c. 6.)]


[S.S.] / 1852 / Aug 28 / S S / on way to India / Zoologist 11/3756 / or Times. [AF-III; 587. (Zoologist, 11-3756.) (London Times, ca. 1852.)]


[S.S.] 1853 / Feb. 2 / [LT], 8-c / Real S.S. [AF-III; 588. (London Times, February 2, 1852, p. 8 c. 3.)]


[S.S.] / 1855 / Feb 16 / L.T., 8-d / S S―something like a periscope. [AF-III; 589. (London Times, February 16, 1855, p. 8 c. 4.)]


[S.S.] / 1855 / May 10 / [LT], 8-c / S.S. [AF-III; 590. (London Times, May 10, 1855, p. 8 c. 3.)]


[S.S.] / 1855 / Aug 13 / S S story / See Oct. 1. [AF-III; 591. See: (1855 Oct 1).]


[S.S.] / 1855 / Oct 1 / In Times (London), S S story said been hoax by an American editor—Zoologist 14-[page not given]. [AF-III; 592. (London Times, ca. October 1, 1855.) (Zoologist, v. 14.)]


[S.S.] / 1856 / Feb ? / Appears in an inland lake / L.T., March 6-12-e. [AF-III; 593. (London Time, March 6, 1856, p. 12 c. 5.)]


[S.S.] / 1856 / March 6 / [LT], 12-e / S S in the Highlands. [AF-III; 594. (London Times, March 6, 1856, p. 12 c. 5.)]


[S.S.] / 1857 / Aug 11 / [LT], 10-c / S.S. [AF-III; 595. (London Times, August 11, 1857, p. 10 c. 3.)]


[S.S.] / Ext story / 1857 / Dec 12 / near St. Helena / S S / Zoologist, 16/5989, 7278 / P.P. 2038. [AF-III; 596. (Zoologist, 16: 5989, 7278.)]


[S.S.] / 1858 / Feb 5, 16, 23 / Times / This S S in Zoologist 16/5989. 6015. [AF-III; 597. (Zoologist, 16: 5989, 6015.)]


[S.S.] / 1858 / Feb 4 / [LT], 9-f / 12-10-c / 16-10-f / 23-12-c / S.S. [AF-III; 598. (London Times, February 4, 1858, p. 9 c. 6.) (London Times, February 12, 1858, p. 10 c. 3.) (London Times, February 16, 1858, p. 10 c. 6.) (February 23, 1858, p. 12 c. 3.)]


S S / 1858 / July 9 / From an Amsterdam newspaper of / Nine days fight by crew of a Dutch bark with a sea monster, 100 feet long, that kept alongside / N.Q. 2-6-524. [AF-III; 599. (Notes and Queries, s. 2 v. 6 p. 524.)]


[S.S.] / 1859 / Ap. 30 / S S / 300 feet long / Zoologist 18-6985 / 12 E. / 93 S.[AF-III; 600. (Zoologist, 18-6985.) (93 S.???)]


S S / 1859 / Aug 20 / ab. 59 N and 59 W (sic) / By Capt of a Quebec schooner. An object like a schooner, bottom up. Found it a living monster. "The large part of the body, or shell, was about 50 feet long, and 16 high. "It had large white fins, something like the wings of a bord, under the shell. The thing moved somewhat and he sailed away. [AF-III: 601.1, 601.2. (Ref.???)]


[S.S.] / 1863 / June 11 / [LT], 7-d / S.S. [AF-III; 602. (London Times, June 11, 1863, p. 7 c. 4.)]


[S.S.] / 1869 / Dec 16 / [LT], 7-d / S.S. [AF-III; 603. (London Times, December 16, 1869, p. 7 c. 4.)]


[S.S.] / 1870 / March 16 / Balloon-serpent between Hayti and New York. [AF-III; 604. (Ref.???)]


S S / 1870 / March(?) 12 / London Times, Ap. 6-12-b, copying from N.Y. Herald / That upon the 12th (March?), Captain Slocum, of the schooner Saladin, from Hayti to New York, had seen a sea serpent, about 5 miles away. At first he thought it a wreck but sailed within "20 feet" of it. About 100 feet long, Said that the most curious feature of it was "abladder-shaped balloon", 12 feet high and 40 feet long, and was rigid like the network of a balloon. Said that 2 paddles were seen but that the "fish proper" was only an appendage. Upon this "floating dome" on one side the head—eyes and a large horn. On the other side a forked tail "of a material as heavy and hard as iron". Nothing said of any sign of life in the obj. The Captain thought best to sail away. [AF-III: 605.1 to 605.4. (London Times, April 6, 1870, p. 12 c. 2.) (New York Herald, ca, March-April, 1870.)]


[S.S.] / 1871 / Oct 22/ N.Y. Times, 4-6 / S S / Tulkee, Ireland / Ed. [AF-III; 606. (New York Times, October 22, 1871, p. 4 c. 6.)]


S S / 1872 / Aug 20 /  S S by 2 Soctch clergymen / Zoologist 2-8-3522. [AF-III; 607. (Zoologist. s. 2 v. 8 p. 3522.)]


[S.S.] / 1873 / Nov. 12 / [LT], 8-d / S.S. [AF-III; 608. (London Times, November 12, 1873, p. 8 c. 4.)]


[S.S.] / 1873 / Nov 20 / Times—S S / See Zologist 8-2-3804. [AF-III; 609. (Zoologist, s. 8 v. 2 p. 3804.)]


S S / 1874 / Nov. 18 / N.Y. Times, 3-5 / In the Ottawa near mouth of the Madawska, unknown monster like a serpent about 15 feet long. [AF-III; 610. (New York Times, November 18, 1874, p. 3 c. 5.)]


S S / 1895 / July 16 / Eagle, 2-4 / 17-6-4 / 19-6-3 / 24-2-1 / 31-6-5 / 31-12-3 / 31-12-5 / Caught and another or not been caught? [AF-III; 611. (Brooklyn Eagle, 1877, July: 16 / Eagle, 2-4 / 17-6-4 / 19-6-3 / 24-2-1 / 31-6-5 / 31-12-3 / 31-12-5.)]


S S / 1875 / July 8 / L.T., Jan 11, 1877 / That Capt of the vessel Pauline, having arrived in the Mersey from Akyab, appeared before a magistrate in Liverpool to make an affidavit upon a monster that he had seen coiled about a whale off n.e. coast of Brazil—head and tail beyond the coils of about 30 feet. This story in S S annals is usually told as if the Capt had seen tentacle of a huge octopus. But the description of the serpentine form is clear, and Capt Drevar says that on 13th of July, he saw the serpentine animal again, the head shooting sixty feet into the air. With the Captain, four members of the crew signed the affidavit. [AF-III: 612.1, 612.2, 612.3. (London Times, January 11, 1877.)]


[S.S.] / 1875 / July 30 / S S reported near Boston / NY Times, Aug 5-3-3 / from Maine—12-5-4. [AF-III; 613. (New York Times, August 5, 1875, p. 3 c. 3.) (New York Times, August 12, 1875, p. 5 c. 4.)]


[S.S.] / 1875 / Sept 19 / from Portland (Me.) Press, 10-[note cut off] / S.S. visited the harbor of Portland. / See back of March 29. [AF-III; 614. "The Sea Serpent Again." Portland Daily Press, (Maine), September 17, 1875, p. 3 c. 1. "The sea serpent, —which has now become a certainty—visited
our harbor Wednesday afternoon for a short time, but finding the water too shoal he put back to sea again. About half past 5 o’clock Mr. John Trefethen, the well known teamster, was at work on Brown’s wharf when he noticed a great commotion in the water in the dock. This dock like many others has been dredged on either side to allow vessels to come up to the wharves, while in the middle of the
dock there is a large quantity of mud. At this time there was but little water on this mud as it was very low water, and the serpent, or whatever it was, appeared to be on this mud and unable to clear himself. Capt. Sawyer, of the Washington Hook and Ladder Company, who was near was called, and he states that he could see something above the water about the size of a bushel basket, which had the appearance of being a part of-the serpent’s back. It caused a great commetiou iu the water, and the waves struck the wharf as hard as though there was a heavy sea outside. The water became very
muddy at last, aud before the men could reach the creature he was making his way out of the dock and was soon lest to sight. After the tide went out the mud showed the mark where the serpent was stranded. The mark on the mud was over sixty feet in length, but Captain Sawyer thinks he was about a third that length." (Earlier reports in Portland Daily Press, August 27, 1875, p. 3 c. 1. Also: Portland Daily Press, July 13, 1875, p. 3 c. 4.)]


[S.S.] / 1876 / Jan 10 / NY Times, 4-5 / New sea monster / Ed. [AF-III; 615. (New York Times, January 10, 1876, p. 4 c. 5.)]


S S/ (+) / Animal / 1876 / Sept 11 / Times, Dec 28-8-2 / Ac to Sir Harry Ord, former Governor of the Straits Settlements, a monster has been seen near Malacca, on Sept 11, by officers, crew and passengers of the steamship Nestor. He gives details ac to affidavits made by the Captain and the surgeon of the vessel. Ac to the CaptainᾸa gigantic frog. Head ab. 12 feet long, body 50—a tail 150 feet long. Considering the tail the surgeon's description—resembling a gigantic newt, is better. [AF-III: 616.1, 616.2, 616.3. (London Times, December 28, 1876, p. 8 c. 2.)]


[S.S.] / (+) / 1877 / Ap 27 / See N.Y. Times, May 12-2-7. / S S captured and brought to Glasgow / look up Scottish papers. / 100 feet long / May 14-4-6—(?) / See May 2. [AF-III; 617. (New York Times, May 12, 1877, p. 2 c. 7.) (New York Times, May 14, 1877, p. 4 c. 6.)]


[S.S.] / 1877 / May 2 / L.T. of / Story of capture of S S in Scotland said been a hoax. [AF-III; 618. (London Times, May 2, 1877.)]


[S.S.] / + / 1892 / July 9 / In Illustrated London News of this date, Dr. Andrew Wilson tells of a newspaper clipping been sent to him, telling of a monster that been seen in Death Valley Desert, Cal. Fully 30 feet long, and part of time walked on hind legs. Head like a horse's—long tail. [AF-III: 619.1, 619.2. (Illustrated London News, July 9, 1892.)]


[S.S.] / 1922 / May 7 / Mutilated whale, ac to Orkney Herrald, May 3. [AF-III; 620. (Orkney Herald, May 3, 1922.)]


[S.S.] / 1920 / Jan 13 / S-S / Nothing in Oban Times.  [AF-III; 621.]


[S.S.] / [Lake Monster Gives Chase To Motorboat] / New Castle, Pa. News / July 23, 1926 / Edmund Hamilton, New Castle, Pa. [AF-III; 622. Newspaper clipping. (Newcastle News, July 23, 1926.)]


S S / BO / 1856 / Feb. 28 / Inverness Courier / That in the inland lake near village of Leurbost, parish of Lochs, Lewis, reported a serpentine creature ab 40 feet long. Said that people had come from far, and crowds were standing, watching the lake. [AF-III; 623. (Inverness Courier, February 28, 1856.)]


S S // 1878 / Sept. 17 ./ A sea serpent ab 60 feet long, reported between Shanghai and Hong Kong. / North China Herald, Oct. 3. [AF-III; 624. (North China Herald, October 3, 1878.)]


S S / 1906 / June 16 / In the Bristol Channel, creature "like a whale, but with two big tusks" reported by a "Swansea professional man". / Western Mail, 22nd, p. 4. [AF-III; 625. (Cardiff Western Mail, June 22, 1906, p. 4.; date not at BNA.) "Sea Serpent in the Bristol Channel." Bristol Times and Mirror, June 23, 1906, p. 8 c. 6. "A Swansea professional man has given the following story to a pressman:—On Saturday last I went for a sail with a friend in a small boat in the direction of Port Eynon. About six o'clock we were standing off Oxwich Bay, a couple of miles or so out, when my companion directed my attention to a strange object about two hundred yards distant. I was steering at the time, but I turned instantly round, and, glancing in the direction which he had indicated, observed the tail of a monster of some kind disappearing below the water. The tail stood up in a perpendicular position when I first noticed it, about 18 feet, I should say, above the surface of the sea. Soon afterwards the head made its appearance. It was very much like that of a whale, with this exception—that there was a big tusk projecting on either side. What the creature was I don't pretend to know. We watched it for some time, and saw it appear and disappear between 50 and 60 times. Eventually it turned right round and proceeded to make its way down Channel. I was afraid that if the monster, which seemed all head and tail, got under the boat. we might be capsized, and kept close in on that account. I have never seen anything like it before. I know people are, as a rule, incredulous as to the existence of things of this kind, but there was no possibility aof a mistake on this occasion, and my one regret is that I had not a camera handy in order that I might hate 'snapped' it."]


S S / 1875 / Sept 17 / D. Telegraph of, 3-5 / Account by William Taylor, Master Mariner, of Bristol, of a S.S., 50 or 60 feet long, he had seen ab. 10 years before bet. Ireland and Bristol. [AF-III; 626. (London Daily Telegraph, September 17, 1875, p. 3 c. 5.)]


S S / Sci Gos 1892-1. [AF-III; 627. (Science Gossip, 1892-1.)]


S S / Ziphioid whales / Nature 5-103. [AF-III; 628. Flower, W.H. “On the Ziphioid Whales.” Nature, 5 December 7, 1871): 103-106.]


S S / 1859 / Aug 20 / S. S. off coast Canada / Zoologist 1859-6729. [AF-III; 629. (Zoologist. 1859-6729.)]


S S / 1912 / Aug 21 / Unknown fish caught near Messina. / Lloyd's W. News 25-7-3 / 600 pounds. Body 6 feet long—tail 6 feet long. On head 2 ear-like fins. Along stomach, ½ a dozen breathing organs. White with some spots. [AF-III; 630. (Lloyd's Weekly News, August 25, 1912, p. 7 c. 3.)]


[S.S.] / 1883 / Nov. 30 / Knowledge of—Richard Proctor tells the story of an unknown animal that was seen in the sea. Nothing serpentine about it. Reported by Capt. Seymour, of the barque Hope On, 40 or 50 miles from Panama. "Capt. Seymour describes the animal as almost seventy feet in length, with a handsome horse-like head, with two unicorn-shaped horns protruding from it. The creature had four legs or double-jointed fins, a brownish hide profusely speckled with large black spots, and a tail which appeared to be divided into parts." Ac to Proctor, officers of the Pacific Mail saw this animal. [AF-III: 631.1, 631.2, 631.3. (Knowledge, November 30, 1883.)]


[S.S.] / 1884 / June 17 / S.S. / Mass. court / Sun, July 1-1-7. [AF-III; 632. (New York Sun, Ju;y 1, 1884,

p. 1 c. 7.)]


[S.S.] / 1884 / June 27 / N.Y. Times, 3-5 / S.S. [AF-III; 633. (New York Times, June 27, 1884, p. 3 c. 5.)]


[The following two notes were clipped together by Fort. AF-III: 634, 635, & 636.]


S.S. / 1884 / Ap. 5 / NY Times, 5-5 / S S and monster / San Francisco Bay. [AF-III; 634. (New York Times, April 5, 1884, p. 5 c. 5.)]


[S.S.] / Animal / 1885 / May 4 / Phil Public Ledger of / Strange animal captured recently in San Francisco Bay. 6 feet long. Weighed 300 pounds. [AF-III; 635. (Philadelphia Public Ledger, May 4, 1885.)]


[S.S.] / 1885 / summer / Sea Serpent / Norway / Nature 32-462. [AF-III; 636. “Notes.” Nature, 32 (September 10, 1885): 460-463, at 462.]


[S.S.] / 1885 / July 22 / Trib of / S.S. / Lake Michigan. [AF-III; 637. (New York Tribune, July 22, 1885.)]


[S.S.] / 1886 / Jan 23 / Unknown monster swimming in Momit's Bay, Cornwall. / The Zoologist 3/10/207. [AF-III; 638. (Zoologist, s. 3 v. 10 p. 207.)]


[S.S.] / 1886 / July 25 / S S about 100 feet long reported from Rockport, Mass / Phil Pub Ledger 28-3-[column not given]. [AF-III; 639. (Philadelphia Public Ledger, July 28, 1886, p. 3.)]


[S.S.] / 1886 / Aug 13, etc. / S S's. [AF-III; 640. (Refs.???)]


[S.S.] / 1887 / May 12 / Late in evening on shore Lake Erie near Toledo, a phosphorescent mass, great lving thing that cast arms about. Two young men who saw it ran to get ropes. When returned it gone—or back to [note cut off]e. Marks on beach indicated it bet 20 and 30 feet in length. "Several scales as large as silver dollars which were cast off were pikced up." / NVl[note cut off]. [AF-III: 641.1, 641.2. (Ref.???)]


[S.S.] / 1887 / May 18 / S S in Lake Champlain / Times 29-5-3. [AF-III; 642. (London Times, May 29, 1887, p. 5 c. 3.)]


S S / Champlain / 1887 / May 24 / Phil Public Ledger of—quoting a cor to the Burlington (Vt) Free Press who writes against the string of birds-explanation. Through a glass he saw it with one individual motion and he saw the body several feet below the surface as well as the visible above. [AF-III: 643.1, 643.2. (Philadelphia Public Ledger, May 24, 1887.)]


[S.S.] / 1887 / last week in July / The Mysterious Monster in Skiff Lake, New Brunswick, seen again. / NY Times, Aug 1-4-7. [AF-III; 644. (New York Times, August 1, 1887, p. 4 c. 7.)]


[S.S.] / 1887 / Oct 2 / Sun, 5-5 / That persons fishing in Sysladobsis Lake, Wash. Co., Maine, had been pursued by a horrible creature resembling a huge water snake, having a body six or 8 feet in length and a head like a dog's. [AF-III; 645. (New York Sun, October 2, 1887, p. 5 c. 5.)]


[S.S.] / 1888 / June 3 / Someone saw a sea serpent near Fire Island, "Big snake fully 30 yards long." / N.Y. Times 6-9-3. [AF-III; 646. (New York Times, June 6, 1888, p. 9 c. 3.)]



[S.S.] / 1888 / June 18 / Reported by officers of schooner arrived in Baltimore on 20th, that off Nag's Head on 18th had seen obj like a square-rigged vessel lying on her beam ends. Then its cast out parts that looked like a ship's yards then sinking from view. Seemed to be 100 feet long with arms 30 feet in length. / NY Times 22-9-6. [AF-III: 647.1, 647.2. (New York Times, June 22, 1888, p. 9 c. 6.)]


[S.S.] / 1888 / June 19 / Capt of the steamer Venetian, ab. 190 miles from Boston, unknown obj. moving slowly in an undulating line. "What it was I don't know. It was unlike any animal [I] ever saw and was not the back of a whale." [AF-III; 648. (Ref.???)]


S S / 1888 / Sept 26 / Glb Dem, 27-6-6 / S S reported off coast of S. Car. Ab. 50 feet long. Head vermillion with a long mane erecting occasionally like quills. [AF-III; 649. (St. Louis Globe Democrat, September 27, 1888, p. 6 c. 6.)]


[S.S.] / 1889 / Jan. 6 / Trib, 17-2 / S.S. [AF-III; 650. (New York Tribune, January 6, 1889, p. 17 c. 2.)]


S S / 1889 / May 4 / S.S. reported as having been seen by Chief Officer Smith, of the British Princess ab Lat 43 and Long 42. / (Glb Dem, Sept 11-4-3) / Second Mate Kelly, of the Joseph S. Spinney, reported having seen about the same place, on June 16, a monster with a head like a horse's; full 400 feet long. [AF-III: 651.1, 651.2. (St. Louis Globe Democrat, September 11, 1889, p. 4 c. 3.)]


[S.S.] / 1891 / Aug 1 / off Portland Light, bet Gisborne and Napier / Sea Serp / Sci Gos 1892-3. [AF-III; 652. (Science Gossip, 1892-3.)]


[S.S.] / Sea Serp. / 1891 / Trib, Aug 8-1-1 / 7-3-6. [AF-III; 653. (New York Tribune, August 8, 1891, p. 1 c. 1.) (New York Tribune, August 7, 1891, p. 3 c. 6.)]


[S.S.] / 1892 / Ap. 21 / Sun, 3-2 / S S in Lake in Maine. [AF-III; 654. (New York Sun, April 21, 1892, p. 3 c. 2.)]


[S.S.] / 1892 / May 26 / Daily Picayune of, 4-5 / Sea Serpent in the Lake at Oak Harbor. Reported by two fishermen. [AF-III; 655. (New Orleans Daily Picayune, May 26, 1892, p. 4 c. 5.)]


[S.S.] / 1892 / July 13, etc. / S S / Lake Erie. [AF-III; 656. (Ref.???)]


[S.S.] / 1892 / July 31 / N.Y. Times, 13-2 / S.S. [AF-III; 657. (New York Times, July 31, 1892, p. 13 c. 2.)]


[S.S.] / 1892 / Aug. 4 / Monster / See Aug 18, 24, 27. [AF-III; 658. See: (1892 Aug 18, 24, 27).]


[S.S.] / 1892 / Dec 4 / Sun, 5-5 / S.S. [AF-III; 659. (New York Sun, December 4, 1892, p. 5 c. 5.)]


[S.S.[ / 1893 / July 8 / P.L. of / Sea serpent with horned head, ab. 15 feet long—Ohio River, near Parkersburg, W.Va. [AF-III; 660. (Philadelphia Public Ledger, July 8, 1893.)]


[S.S.] / 1893 / Dec 2 / 7 a.m. / S.S. / Grand Banks / Trib 7-3-5. [AF-III; 661. (New York Tribune, December 7, 1893, p. 3 c. 5.)]


[S.S.] / 1893 / Dec 6 / Eagle, 1-2 / S.S. [AF-III; 662. (Brooklyn Eagle, December 6, 1893, p. 1 c. 2.)]


S.S. / 1895 / Jan 23 / Orange Lake near Newburg / 2 skaters see ice broken by what seemed to be the back of an enormous fish. / Herald 24-10-5. [AF-III; 663. (New York Herald, January 24, 1895, p. 10 c. 5.)]


[S.S.] / 1896 / June 27 / Eagle, 6-4 / S.S. [AF-III; 664. (Brooklyn Eagle, June 27, 1896, p. 6 c. 4.)]


S S / (unknown) / 1896 / Dec 5 / 31/304, Amer Naturalist / Unknown object or mass of flesh cast ashore 12 miles south of St Augustine, Fla. There were ridges on it, supposed been the stumps of arms like of an octopus, but Prof.(?) A.E Verrill, in A. Nat., says not so. 21 feet long, 7 feet broad, 4½ high. Estimated weight 7 tons. Several photos of it reproduced. Prof. Verrill thinks only part of a creature. Argues that it came from a creature, head of like a sperm whale, but says decidedly unlike the head of an ordinary sperm whale. No features of a head, such as a blow-hole. / Good-sized elephant weighs 4 tons. [AF-III: 665.1, 665.2, 665.3. (American Naturalist, 31-304.)]


S.S. / 1911 / D. Express, Sept. 30 / Monster in the Medway, reported from Chatham—a white animal, finless, head like a cow's, ab. 30 feet long. [MB-II; 71. (London Daily Express, September 30, 1911.) “The Sea Serpent.” North-Eastern Daily Gazette, (Daily Gazette for Middlebrough), September 30, 1911, p. 3 c. 5. ]


SS / Feb 2, 1895 / Editor of Highland News (Inverness) of, says that 2 cors had written from Tobson, telling of reports to them be respectable residents of T., names given, who said had seen in the sea, at Tob Valasay, a monster about 60 feet long, with a head like that of a hornless bull. In News, March 16, a cor., who was a Free Church Missionary, writes that he was astonished to read that in some newspapers, he was quoted as having seen the monster. He denied this. Said that one of the observers, who was favourably known to him, had been so panic-stricken as to be untrustworthy, having most likely seen something, but nothing that was extraordinary. [MB-II: 72.1, 72.2, 72.3. “A Sea Monster At Bernera.” Highland News, (Inverness), February 2, 1895, p. 3 c. 7. “The Bernera Sea Serpent.” Highland News, (Inverness), March 16, 1895, p. 4 c. 2.]


SS / Lake Ontario / June 15, 1835. [MB-II; 73. “The American Sea Serpent in Lake Ontario.” British Whig, (Kingston, Ontario), June 15, 1835, p. 3 c. 2. “Our office has been favoured with a visit from Captain Abijah Kellogg, of the schooner Polythemus, of Sackett's, arrived this morning from Rochester. This gentleman has related to us a tale of wonder, a tale so incredible, that we scruple some, as the Yankees say, in laying his narration before our readers, lest they might think it but the creation of our imagination.” “Captain Kellogg states that yesterday evening (June 15th), about seven o'clock, as he was making for Kingston harbour, the 'Ducks' bearing N. by W. distant two miles, he saw something lying still on the weather bow that looked like the mast of a vessel. Observing it more attentively, he was surprised and alarmed to see it in motion, and steering towards the schooner. Singing out to his hands to take care of themselves, he put the schooner up to the wind, lashed the helm a lee, and ran up the main rigging, waiting for the monster to approach. The serpent, for it was no other than an immense snake, neared the vessel fast, and passed immediately under the stern, taking no notice whatever of the schooner or those on board, but affording to everybody an ample opportunity to observe and note his monstrous dimensions. In length he was about 175 feet, of a dark blue colour, spotted with brown; towards either end he tapered off, but about the middle his body was of the circumference of a flour barrel; his head was peculiarly small, and could not well be distinguished but from the direction in which he moved. He swam with an undulating movement, keeping best part of his body under water, but occasionally shewing his entire length. He was in sight full fifteen minutes, and when last seen was making the best of his way down the St. Lawrence. On board the schooner were two young men, the vessel's crew, together with three passengers, who are all willing to be qualified to the truth of what has been here stated.” Sackett's refers to Sackets Harbor, New York; and, the schooner probably was the Polyphemus, (not Polythemus, as reported by the British Whig). “The American Sea Serpent in Lake Ontario.” New York Evening Post, June 30, 1835, p. 2 c. 7. Oudemans, Anthonie Cornelis. The Great Sea-Serpent. London: Luzac, 1892, 30.]


SS / obj / 1858 / Jan 26 / Reported by Capt. Suckling, of the Carnatic, between Cape of Good Hope and St Helena. / Something like a large spar sticking out of the water, 30 feet—seemed moving rapidly, changed its course, disappeared and came up at a distance from where disappeared. [MB-II: 74.1, 74.2. "Another Sea-Serpent." Illustrated London News, (March 20, 1858): 303.]


[S.S.] / 1916 June 14 / Sea Serp near Sweden and Baltic / Nature 102/468 / Sc Am 115/237. [MB-II; 75. "Notes." Nature, 97 (August 3, 1916): 466-471, at 468-469. "The Great Sea Serpent...." Scientific American, n.s., 115 (September 9, 1916): 237.]


SS / 1905 / Jan 27 / The Age (Melbourne) of this date, copied in the Zoologist, 4/9/115 / In a correspondence upon the report that a S S had been struck by the "Armdale Castle" on her voyage to South Africa. / Arthur Mattingley, Secretary, Australasian Orinthologists' Union, writes of report by the officers of the French warship "Décidée" of S S seen by them late in 1904 in Bay of Along—serpentine thing ab 100 yards in length. A broadside of shrapnel fired at it but seem without effect. [MB-II: 76.1, 76.2. (The Age, Melbourne, January 27, 1905.) Mattingley, Arthur Herbert Evelyn. "The Animals or Animals generally referred to as the Sea-Serpent." Zoologist, s. 4 v. 9  (1905): 113-115. The "Bay of Along" is now identified as Ha Long Bay, Vietnam.]


[S.S.] / 1904 / July 2 / Trib, 1-5 / S.S. [MB-II; 77. "Eyes As Big As Saucers." New York Tribune, July 2, 1904, p. 1 c. 5.]


[S.S.] / 1903 / June 13 / Falmouth Packet / Unknown monster off w. coast of Shetland. [MB-II; 78. “Sea Serpents.” Lake's Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser, June 13, 1903, p. 3 c. 5.  “The Sea Serpent at Shetland.” Orkney Herald, (Kirkwall), June 10, 1903, p. 4 c. 5. “The sea serpent or some colourable imitation thereof has again made its appearance on the coast of Shetland. The monster was encountered last week by Mr P. F. Jamieson, a merchant residing at the west side, who had been at Scalloway, and set sail at six o'clock in the morning for his home. He had not proceeded far when, to his amazement and horror, he saw rising out of the water within a short distance of his boat a sea monster about 30 feet long. In appearance it was like a boat sail, and on its head or snout there was an enormous flipper-like appendage. Fortunately it did not venture to come to closer acquaintance with the owner of the boat, who lost no time in turning about and making for Scalloway. Mr Jameson's story is fully corroborated by the crew of the fishing boat Adelong, which for four successive nights saw this monster on the stretch of water known as the Burra Haaf. In their case so uncomfortably close did it come to the boat that the men were forced to push it away with a boat hook. Ten of their nets were destroyed by the animal. The men state that it seemed to be covered by a thick mucous substance, which gave off a very bad smell.”]


S.S. / Obj. / 1902 / Oct 28 / 3:05 a.m. / Lat 5-31 S / Long. 4-42 W. / In the Zoologist 4/7/38, story told according to the log of A.H. Raymer, the second officer of the s.s. Fort Salisbury. The lookout reported two lights ahead. Upon a dark object. They were "almost as bright as a steamer's lights". The object was sinking slowly. The vessel passed and the officer's description is in S.S. terms—that it was the scaled back of a monster slowly disappearing—estimated 500 to 600 feet long—thought it had fins because of disturbance of the water. The phosphorescence of the sea is mentioned several times, but there seens to be no definite idea as to the lights. To this is added a note from the Captain of the vessel:

"I can only say that he (Mr. Raymer) is very earnest on the subject, and certainly has, together with the look-out and helmsman, seen something in the water of a huge nature, as specified." [MB-II: 79.1 to 79.4. "The following is the latest contribution to the tale...." Zoologist, s. 4 v. 7 (1903): 38-39. "Concluded dark mass was a whale, and lights phosphorescent." "The breadth of the body showing above water tapered from about 30 ft. close abaft, where the dark mass appeared to about 5 ft. at the extreme end visible."]


SS / BO / In D. Express, July 26, 1912, published part of a letter from Miss Rider Haggard, to her father, Sir H. Rider Haggard, of an unknown creature that she had seen off the coast of Lowestoft. "The phenomenon appeared like a row of enormous corks, in a graduated line, travelling at a terrific speed, cutting straight through the water, all evidently attached, but with no individual motion. It sank suddenly. I should think it at least forty feet long, and going quite a mile a minute." Since that observation in agreement had been made by Mr. C.G. Harding, at Lowestoft, and Mrs. A.J. Orams, at Mundesley. Said that Miss Lucy M. Peaton, of Great Yarmouth, had seen the phenomenon, and looking through field-glasses had seen it to be a number of birds flying in single fiel, just above the water. [MB-II: 80.1 to 80.4. (London Daily Express, July 12, 1912.)]


[S.S.] / [Horse-Headed Sea Serpent Gives Gloucester Sailors an Eyeful] / Ev. World, June 6, 1930, [page A3]. [MB-II; 81. Newspaper clipping. (New York Evening World, June 6, 1930, p. A3.)]


[S.S.] / 1930 / [Sea Serpent Reported Off New South Wales] / N.Y. Sun, [Aug. 11]. [MB-II; 82. (New York Sun, August 11, 1930.)]


SS / 1888 / [June 10] / June 11 / Reported from Kingston. Sea Serpent, ab 25 feet long, in Lake Ontario. / NY Trib 12-1-2 / 1888 / June 18 / ab 200 miles east of Boston, as reported by Capt Trant, of the Leland liner Venetian. / Sea serpent—ab 30 or 40 feet of the body visible. [MB-II: 83.1, 83.2. "The Sea Serpent in Lake Ontario." New York Tribune, June 12, 1888, p. 1 c. 2. "Sea-Serpent on the Georges Bank." New York Tribune, June 21, 1888, p. 1 c. 1.]


S.S. / and queer fish ab. same time / 2 cases in Sept, 1886. [MB-II; 84. See: 1886 Sept 2, (B; 719); 1886 Sept 3, (B: 721 & 726); 1886 Sept 8, (B; 722); and, 1886 Sept. 25, (B; 740).]


[S.S.] / 1930 / [Sea Monster Seen at Newport Is Identified as White Whale] / [New York Times, May 24]. [MB-II; 85. Newspaper clipping. ("Sea Monster Seen at Newport Is Identified as White Whale." New York Times, May 24, 1930, p. 3 c. 5.)]


SS / 1879 / Aug 5 / 100 miles west of Brest, France, Capt of British ship Privateer saw a black snake-like object rise about 20 feet out of the water. / L.T., Sept 24-5-f. [MB-II; 86. "Another Sea Serpent." New York Herald, September 10, 1879, p. 4 c. 5. (London Times, September 24, 1879, p. 5 c. 6.)]


[S.S.] / 1879 / Nov. 5 / SS / Lake Champlain / N.Y. Times, Nov. 10. [MB-II; 87. (“A Vermont Sea-Serpent.” New York Times, November 10, 1879.) “The Lake Champlain Sea Serpent.” Burlington Weekly Free Press, (Vermont), November 14, 1879, p. 2 c. 7. “We were out in a boat, looking for ducks, at the mouth of Shelburn Bay. The creature, whatever it was, first appeared a short distance to the north of Juniper Island, then with amazing swiftness approached it, and, gliding along its eastern side, which was then white with snow, presented to us, in clear outline, the aspect of a cylindrical, bole-
shaped neck, slightly inclined forward, as though breasting the waves and the fresh south wind, the upper end projecting forward horizontally, wonderfully like the head of an ordinary snake when elevated from the earth.” “Our boat lay directly off the Red Rocks, and nearly opposite Juniper. The distance at which we saw the monster could not have been less than two miles; yet the foaming of the water around its breast, and now and then the dark trailing wake of its body were plainly seen. We judged that its course could not have been farther from the island than a quarter of a mile, and were in hopes that some of the lightkeeper's family might have also observed it. The rate of motion whieh it maintained was surprising. We could not have watched it longer than fifteen or twenty minutes, but in that time it had passed far beyond Rock Dunder, and was fading in the distance. Its progress was observable longer than it might otherwise have been, owing to the white background of the New York shore. As to its actual size. I am not able to conjecture. As the head and neck emerged around Dunder, their height out of water seemed but a few feet less than that of the rock itself. A dark object which can be seen with distinctness for five or six miles may be supposed to possess considerable dimensions.” “This occurrence took place at about half-past four p.m., before the lighthouse lamps were lit.” “Vermont News.” St. Johnsbury Caledonian, November 14, 1879, p. 2 c. 5. “Another witness to the existence of that Champlain serpent. A Miss Gordon of Grand Isle, avers that a few days ago she saw the monster—or at least a part of it—the portion she saw out of water being as long as a skiff, and as big as a barrel.” (Burlington Free Press, November 7, 1879; not found here.)]


SS / 1880 / July 8 / Toronto Globe / Lake Duchene, Ottawa Co, Ontario / A year before, had been a story by a resident of Yea. A dark object in the water, rushing past, rocking his boat. Said that upon July 5, a large moving thing had been seen. / See July 30. [MB-II; 88. (Toronto Globe, July 8, 1880.) See: S.S. / 1880 / July 30, (MB-II; 101).]


[S.S.] / 1880 / July 10 / NY Times of / A Canadian who had seen at night, in Lake Duchesne, a "dark object rushing past him in the water, going against wind and wave, and rocking his boat frightfully for the moment." [MB-II; 89. (New York Times, July 10, 1880, p. 3 c. 4.) Lake Duchene.]


[S.S.] / 1880 / July 10 / N.Y. Times, 3-4 / Aug 1-8-5 / S.S. in Duchesne Lake. [MB-II; 90. (New York Times, July 10, 1880, p. 3 c. 4.) (New York Times, August 1, 1880, p. 8 c. 5.) Lake Duchene.]


[S.S.] / 1877 / Sept 3 / [LT], 6-c / 7-4-c / S.S. [MB-II; 91. (London Times, September 3, 1877, p. 6 c. 3.) (London Times, September 7, 1877, p. 4 c. 3.)]


[S.S.] / 1877 / Sept 22 / SS / Trib. [MB-II; 92. (New York Tribune, September 22, 1877; not found here.)]


[S.S.] / 1877 / Dec 22 / [LT], 6-f / S.S. [MB-II; 93. (London Times, December 22, 1877, p. 6 c. 6.)]


[S.S.] / 1878 / Jan 3 / [LT], 10-e / S.S. [MB-II; 94. (London Times, January 3, 1878, p. 10 c. 5.)]


[S.S.] / 1879 / Jan 26 / NY Times, 8-3 / S.S. / L.I. Sound. [MB-II; 95. (New York Times, January 26, 1879, p. 8 c. 3.)]


[S.S.] / 1879 / Jan 28 / S.S. in Gulf of Aden / La Nature 1879/11/16. [MB-II; 96. "Un Serpent du Mer." La Nature, 1879 pt. 2 (no. 314; June 7): 16. "The Sea Serpent." London Graphic, April 19, 1879, pp. 12 & 14 c. 2.]


[S.S.] / 1877 / May 14 / July 23 / Sept 22 / S.S. / Trib. [MB-II; 97. "The Great Sea-Serpent." New York Tribune, July 23, 1877, p. 4 c. 4-5. (New York Tribune, May 14, 1877; not found here.) (New York Tribune, September 22, 1877; not found here.) (These dates are from “Sea-serpent” in the Tribune index of 1877.)]


[S.S.] / 1877 / June 2 / S.S. / Sicily / Sc Am 37/20, 71. [MB-II; 98. "The Sea Serpent Sighted from a Royal Yacht." Scientific American, n.s., 37 (July 14, 1877): 20.) "The Sea Monster." Scientific American, n.s., 37 (August 4, 1877): 71. "The Sea Serpent." London Graphic, June 30, 1877, p. 8.]


[S.S.] / 1877 / July 23 / SS / Trib. [MB-II; 99. "The Great Sea-Serpent." New York Tribune, July 23, 1877, p. 4 c. 4-5.]


(SS) / 1880 / July 14 / Toronto Globe of, 5-3 / "A curious monster of the sea, captured at Margarie Island, measured about forty feet in length, and is shaped like a serpent. About thirty fishermen, armed with axes and harpoons, succeeded in killing the monster after a desperate struggle." [MB-II: 100.1, 100.2. (Toronto Globe, July 14, 1880, p. 5 c. 3.)]


[S.S.] / 1880 / July 30 / Toronto Globe of / On Lake Duchesne (so spelled this time), a boy in a canoe, chased by the monster. / See July 8. [MB-II; 101. (Toronto Globe, July 30, 1880.) See: SS / 1880 / July 8, (MB-II; 88). Lake Duchene.]


[S.S.] / 1880 / Aug 2 / N.Y. Times, 4-5 / S.S. [MB-II; 102. (New York Times, August 2, 1880, p. 4 c. 5.)]


SS / 1880 / Aug 23 / Daily Evening Mercury (Quebec) of / A sea serpent had been reported. Then said been seen on the 17th—Lake Ontario?—by Messrs W. Conroy, Geo. Bolton, and Capt Bolton on their way from Aylmer to the Quio. Large form said been seen. [MB-II; 103. “The Veritable Sea Serpent.” Quebec Mercury, August 23, 1880, p. 1 c. 2. “On Tuesday evening, as Messrs W Conroy[,] Geo. Bolton, and Captain Bolton were going up from Aylmer to the Quio, to be present at the funeral of the

late Mr. Leeder, whose body was recovered on that day, they saw the big serpent. It was between the little steamer Aylmer upon which they were, and the shore of Twelve-Mile Island, where this marine monster seems to make its home. The parties saw the serpent very plainly, and describe its body as being larger if anything, than previously reported; but the length they could not clearly define, as only its head and a portion of the body was out of the water. The serpent was coming down the channel while they were going up. In swimming it caused a considerable rippling of the water, the lake being calm at the time.” “Quio” is the old spelling for Quyon, Quebec; and, the sighting was on the Ottawa River, (not Lake Ontario).]


SS / 1880 / Aug 24 / Said that on the Merigomish coast (Nova Scotia) a S. Serp. seen—from 70 to 100 feet long. / Citizen and Evening Chronicle (Halifax), Sept. 1. [MB-II; 104. (Halifax Citizen and Evening Chronicle, September 1, 1880.)]


[S.S.] / 1881 / summer / engine-like thing / Lake Simcoe, Canada. [MB-II; 105. (Ref.???) (Toronto Globe, ca. August 12, 1881.) "Canadian News." Huron Signal, (Goderich, Ontario), July 22, 1881, p. 8 c. 3.]


[S.S.] / 1881 / Sept 15, ab. / Sea Serp / Lake Ontario or Erie / Sun 22-3-3. [MB-II; 106. "The Sea Serpent Again." New York Sun, September 22, 1881, p. 3 c. 3.]


[S.S.] / 1882 / June 14 / NY Times, 4-5 / S.S. / Scotch. [MB-II; 107. ("A Scotch Sea-Serpent." New York Times, June 14, 1882, p. 4 c. 5-6.)]


[S.S.] / 1882 / Aug 15 / Sea Serp / Mass. / Sun 16-1-6. [MB-II; 108. “A Sea Serpent That Barked.” New York Sun, August 16, 1882, p. 1 c. 6.]


[S.S.] / 1882 / Aug 25 / N.Y. Times, 2-7 / S.S. [MB-II; 109. (New York Times, August 25, 1882, p. 2 c. 7.)]


[S.S.] / 1882 / Sept. 3 / Wales / a Sea Serp / Nature 27/293. [MB-II; 110. Mott, F.T. "The Sea Serpent." Nature, 27 (January 25, 1883): 293-294.]


[S.S.] / 1883 / Nov 23 / Knowledge of / SS at Bude / sometime before [October 11] / (See p. 333—not same one.) [MB-II; 111. (London Times, October 12, 1882.) Proctor, Richard Anthony. "Strange Sea Creatures." Knowledge, o.s., 4 (November 23, 1883): 268. Proctor, Richard Anthony. "A Marine Monster." Knowledge, o.s., 4 (November 30, 1883): 332-333. This last article refers to the sightings at the Pearl Islands, off Panama. See: SS / 1883 / ab Oct 7, (MB-II; 112).]


SS / 1883 / ab Oct 7 (before) / Proctor story / In Quebec Daily Mercury, Nov. 3 / Told by Capt Seymour, of the American whaling bark Hope On, arrived at Panama, Oct. 7th—encountered off Pearl Islands, ab. 50 miles from Panama. Same story. [MB-II; 112. “A Strange Marine Animal.” Quebec Mercury, November 3, 1883, p. 1 c. 2. “A Monster of the Deep.” New York Herald, October 26, 1883, p. 7 c. 5.]


SS / Animal / 1921 / Nov 1 / In the Daily Mail / Review of F.A. Mitchell Hedges' "Battles with Giant Fish" / "Two years ago, a great beast was washed ashore off Cape May. This animal (Mr. Mitchell Hedges says), whose weight was estimated at over 15 tons, which—to give a comparison of size—is almost as large as five fully grown elephants, was visited by many scientists, who were unable to place it, and positively stated that nothing yet known to science could in any way compare with it." [MB-II: 113.1, 113.2. (London Daily Mail, 1921.) Mitchell-Hedges, Frederick Albert. Battles with Giant Fish. London: Duckworth, 1923, 22. "The great public, however, I knew perfectly well would only smile and reiterate tales about the sea-serpent ; but all scepticism and incredulity are swept aside when we realise the actual fact that in November 1921, off Cape May, a great beast was washed ashore. This mammal, whose weight was estimated at over 1 5 tons, which—to give a comparison of size—is almost as large as five fully grown elephants, was visited by many scientists, who were unable to place it, and positively stated that nothing yet known to Science could in any way compare with it." "The photographs which were published in many news-papers showed that this modern leviathan somewhat resembled the elephant—in fact, it could best be described as a sea-elephant, but of huge proportions." This whale carcass has been identified as a rorqual whale. Hemmler, Markus. "What is the strange sea monster? Cape May, 1921." http://globsterblobsandmore.com/cetacea/cape-may-1921 ]


[S.S.] / 1883 / Dec 7 / Sun, 1-4 / S.S. / Jersey coast. [MB-II; 114. "Reappearance of the Sea Serpent." New York Sun, December 7, 1883, p. 1 c. 4. "The serpent was fully ninety feet long and thirty feet wide. We did not see his entire length. There was a blow hole about nine feet long and two feet wide about twenty feet from the end of his nose. He was yellowish in color around the head. The rest of the body was black. The head was short, and near the nose were two stubby horns."]


[S.S.] / 1883 / Dec 8 / N.Y. Times, 4-5 / S.S. / Jersey coast / Ed. [MB-II; 115. (New York Times, December 8, 1883, p. 4 c. 5.)]


SS / Turtle / 1883 / Dec 12 / New Zealand Times, quoting N.Y. Times of several months before—a sea-captain's story that he had seen what he supposed was the hull of a capsized vessel. He went closer and saw that it was the shell of a turtle, the visible part ab. 60 feet long and 40 feet broad. [MB-II: 116.1, 116.2. "A few days ago (says the New York Times...." New Zealand Times, (Wellington), December 12, 1883 p. 2 c. 6. “A Turtle of Immense Proportions.” New York Tribune, April 27, 1883, p. 1 c. 5. (“Monster of the Deep.” New York Times, April 27, 1883.) “The Sea Serpent Eclipsed.” Portland Daily Press, (Maine), April 28, 1883, p. 1 c. 4. “Capt. Augustus G. Hall of the schooner Annie L Hall, recently arrived at this port from the Grand bank, reports March 30, lat. 44° 10', lon. 38°, discovered an immense trunk turtle, which at first was supposed to be a vessel bottom up. The schooner passed within 25 feet of the monster, affording an opportunity to obtain a good view, and the dimensions were estimated to be at least 40 feet in length, 30 feet in width, 36 feet from apex of the back to bottom of the under shell. The flippers were not less than 20 feet in length[.] The monster was alive. Owing to the rough weather, Capt. Hall did not deem it advisable to endeavor to capture it. The phenomenal size of the turtle renders the story most incredible, but a good opportunity was presented to make comparisons with the size of the schooner. Capt. Hall and the crew claim that the figures given are under, rather than over, the actual size of the creature.”  “A Large Turtle.” Scientific American, n.s., 48 (May 12, 1883): 292. The longitude and latitude given are about 180 km. to the northwest of Flores Island in the Azores, and about 1800 km. away from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.]


[S.S.] / 1884 / Feb 19 / NY Times, 2-6 / S.S. [MB-II; 117. (New York Times, February 19, 1884, p. 2 c. 6.)]


[S.S.] / 1884 / March 1 / N.Y. Times, 2-1 / S.S. near N.Y. [MB-II; 118. (New York Times, March 1, 1884, p. 2 c. 1.)]


SS / and pumice / 1884 / June 15 / Cor writes—Nature 30-513—that a friend of his, Capt. W. Hopkins, of the schooner Mary Ogilvie, had in S lat 21-37 and E long 113-49 seen enormous living thing like an octopus, in a sick or dying condition, and had sailed through vast shoals of pumice—"completely covered with barnacles." But barnacles on the pumice. [MB-II: 119.1, 119.2. Morris, Alfred. “A Sea Monster.” Nature, 30 (September 24, 1884): 513.]


[S.S.] / BO / Unknown spouting fish like a little whale in Lake Winona, Minn / St Louis G-Dem, May 25, 1888. [MB-II; 120. (St, Louis Globe-Democrat, May 25, 1888.) "A Big Fish—For Lake Winona." New York Tribune, May 27, 1888, p. 1 c. 4. "Considerable excitement has been caused among the people living near the lake by a large fish that has several times made its appearance in the last few days. It was first seen floundering around in the water just north of the cemetery end of the lake bridge. It was four or five feet in length with a shiny skin and without scales. Its movements in the water were
rather sluggish. At times it would spout water like a whale distances of fifteen or twenty feet up in the
air. The next day large crowds stood the banks of Lake Winona, some with guns and harpoons to slay the fish, others with tclescopes and field glasses eagerly scanning the water for a glimpse of the newly discovered wonder. Shortly after 3 o'clock it made its appearance with spoutings and lashings. One of the spectators armed with a repeating Winchester, emptied its contents into the fish fifteen or twenty times, apparently without effect."]


[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. MB-II: 121 & 122.]


SS / (+) / 1877 / June 2 / 11th of June, the Royal yacht, the Osborne, arrived at Portsmouth and forwarded an official report to the Admiralty upon a monster that was seen off coast of Sicily on May 2nd. / L.T., June 14-13-a / Head about six feet long and like that of a seal. No scales to be seen. Formed like a turtle 15 feet long. Said that in Gulf of Tunis, ab 100 miles away, had been a submarine eruption and some connection was supposed. / But I find this was in Feb.—see. [MB-II: 121.1, 121.2. (London Times, June 14, 1877, p. 13 c. 1.)]


SS / 1877 / March 31 / French barque Bayadere arrived at Rio: reported having met the whaler Trinidad—capt and crew greatly excited—3 boats been stove in by a monster 130 feet long. They had killed it. Head like that of a hippopotamus. Two large fan-shaped flippers or fins, with five huge claws on each. Each claw or talon like an eagle's, four feet long. Over each eye was a projection as if for a shield. Skin was like an elephant's hide. It had been the hope of Capt. of the Ringold to tow the monster to Rio de Janeiro. / Toronto Globe 29-1-10. [MB-II: 122.1. 122.2. 122.3. (Toronto Globe, April??? 29, 1877, p. 1 c. 10.) (Boston Globe, 1877; @ proquest & newspapers.com.) Whaling ship Ringold, off Trinidad, (not a ship named Trinidad).]


S.S. / 1930 / [Wanamakers Land Whale at Montauk] / [New York Times, Aug. 16, page 16]. [MB-II; 123. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, August 17, 1930, p. 16 c.1-2.)]


S.S. / Okapi was discovered in Uganda, by Sir Harry Johnston, in 1899. [MB-II; 124. Sclater, Philip Lutley. "On an apparently new Species of Zebra from the Semliki Forest." Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1  (February 5, 1901): 50- 52.]


SS / in Lakes / July, Aug, 1892. [MB-II; 125. See: 1892 Aug 4, (C; 34); 1892 Aug 24, (C; 49); and, 1892 Aug 27, (C; 50).]


[S.S.] / 1896 / Aug 11 / Big green monster ab. 50 feet long reported from Whitestone, L.I. / Eagle 12-7-4. [MB-II; 126. "The Sea Serpent Sighted." Brooklyn Eagle, August 12, 1896, p. 7 c. 4.]


S S / Australian Skull / 1846 / Tas. Jour. Sci. / Teeth of large size and have their folds of enamel placed longitudinally. Face small and cranium very much developed, so that the brain must have been of "enormous magnitude". [SF-VI; 1495. Gunn, Ronald Campbell. "On the Bunyip of Australia Felix." Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science, Agriculture, Statistics, &c., 3 (1846): 147-149. Macleay, William Sharp. "On the Skull Now Exhibited at the Colonial Museum of Sydney." Sydney Morning Herald, July 7, 1847, p. 3 c. 4. "I have however, I repeat, in my possession the skull of a foetus of a mare, which was found floating on the river Hawkesbury, in the year 1841. This skull was prepared by the lamented late Dr. Stewart, and he has made drawings and notes of it, which I intend before long to publish, with his other observations on various branches of natural history. Now the great elevation of the cranium, and the extraordinary development of the frontal, parietal, and occipital bones, are even more remarkable in this foal's head than in the animal from the Murrumbidgee. The grand distinction, between the two skulls is, that while in this the ocular orbits are as far as possible apart almost touching the molars, in the Hawkesbury skull the eyes converge so as to unite and form one circular orbit in the middle of the forehead, the animal being thus a true Cyclops. This most astonishing structure is occasioned by the nasal bones being totally wanting, by the inter-maxillaries being reduced to a mere rudimentary tubercle, and by the single orbit in the forehead being formed below by the junction of the lacrymals, and above by that of the post-orbitary apophyse of the frontals, all enormously developed for the purpose of filling up the vacancy occasioned by the want of the nasal bones. In the Murrumbidgee skull the bones that are deficient in the other one are here excessively developed, so as to force the eyes down on the upper jaw. I am thus inclined to consider it to be likewise the skull of a mishapen foal or foetus of a mare; its peculiar monstrosity consisting in the eyes being located in a manner exactly opposite to that which prevails in the Hawkesbury foal. This is monstrous by extreme convergency of the eyes, the Murrumbidgee foal by the extreme divergency of the same organs. I argue for this skull being a lusus naturæ on the ground of its being absolutely identical in some respects with that of a foal, while in others it is totally different from the cranium of all known mammalia; and naturalists will here recollect the Linnean apophthegm repecting the order of the creation, 'Natura non facit saltus.' Besides I may advance another proof of the animal having been mishapen or imperfect, in the fact of there being no super-orbitary foramen, such as exists in the horse and ruminantia. The excessive development of the hinder part of the cranium is the result also of the malformation of the bones of the face, as we see in the Hawkesbury monster." "If the Murrumbidgee skull should eventually be proved to belong to a distinct species, this new animal must be placed between the horse and the lama, only close to the horse. But I do not imagine that, even then, it can be identical with the so-called Bunyip, of which so many unintellible accounts have been given in the Sydney papers; for the Bunyip is said to be a solitary aquatic animal, whereas this skull must have belonged to a solipede, which if full, grown would have delighted in grass, dry land and the society of its own species. In my judgment, however, the animal is not new, and this skull, when compared with the one from the Hawkesbury, only serves to show the extreme limits between which all monstrous variation of the place of the eyes in the horse can possibly occur." The Murrumbidgee skull was temporarily displayed at the Colonial Museum at Sydney, but has been lost.]


S.S. / Minoaca / Nature 17-325 / 18-389. [SF-VI; 1496. "A New Underground Monster." Nature, 17 (February 21, 1878): 325-326. "Underground Monsters." Nature, 18 (August 8, 1878): 389.]


S.S. / Ogopogo of B. Columbia / May 24, 1931. [SF-VI; 1497. See: S.S. / 1931 May 24, (AF-III; 525).]

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