. Creatures of the sea [microform] : being the life stories of some sea birds, beasts, and fishes. Marine animals; Marine fishes; Faune marine; Poissons de mer. Sea'Serpents In 1845 Dr. Albert C. Koch exhibited a large skeleton of a fossil animal under the name of Hydrarchos Sillimanni, the latter half of the portentous name being in honour of the learned editor of The American Journal of Science and Arts, Professor Benjamin Silliman, well known for his affectionate regard for the Sea-serpent. The remains consisted of a head and vertebral column, measuring in all or 2 hundred and fourteen feet
. Creatures of the sea [microform] : being the life stories of some sea birds, beasts, and fishes. Marine animals; Marine fishes; Faune marine; Poissons de mer. Sea'Serpents In 1845 Dr. Albert C. Koch exhibited a large skeleton of a fossil animal under the name of Hydrarchos Sillimanni, the latter half of the portentous name being in honour of the learned editor of The American Journal of Science and Arts, Professor Benjamin Silliman, well known for his affectionate regard for the Sea-serpent. The remains consisted of a head and vertebral column, measuring in all or 2 hundred and fourteen feet, of a few ribs attached to the tlioracic portion of the spine, and some parts of supposed paddles. Of course the scientific journals took up the discussion of this won- derful discovery with avidity, and a few months after- wards Professor Wyman, in The Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, had the courage and skill to point out that ' these remains never belonged to one and the same individual, and that the anatomical character of the teeth indicates that they are not those of a reptile, but of a warm-blooded mammal.' In the next month's Proceedings of the same Society, Professor Rogers points out that, according to the form and structure of some loose bones, the skeleton must be of at least l^o individuals of Basilaurus, a fossil monster allied to the seals and whales, which Professor Owen termed Zeuglodon. In the next month's issue Dr. Koch informs the public that the bones had been found together and were arranged in the precise order in which they were discovered. But a Dr. Lister wrote to say that he knew that Dr. Koch had dug up the bones in different places in Alabama. However, the yam was not killed, hardlv scotched, and the ' fossil Sea-serpent' stiU yielded a plentiful harvest of dollars. And in The Illustrated London News of October 28, 1848, Professor Silliman ventures to state, m the hope apparenUy that the previous con- tradictions would be forgo
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