Abstract
THE narrative of an encounter with the “seaserpent” on December last off the coast of Para, given by Messrs. Nicoll and Meade-Waldo at the meeting of the Zoological Society held on June 18, has once more awakened interest in the question as to the possibility of the existence of a large unknown marine vertebrate animal. The appearance of the so.called “sea-serpent” has been recorded from time to time by quite a number of witnesses. Many of these alleged appearances were evidently based on objects other than vertebrate animals unknown to science, but others, as being witnessed by trustworthy and educated observers, are evidently worthy of more serious consideration. The importance of the recent case—of which more anon—is that it was witnessed by two gentlemen who have undergone a long training in the observation of animals, and are therefore far less likely to be mistaken than persons who have not specially devoted themselves to the study of natural history.
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L., R. The Sea-Serpent . Nature 74, 202–203 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074202a0
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