wunder · Library

Part 4

The Great Sea-Serpent · A. C. Oudemans — chapter 4 of 137 · ~520 words · public domain

Read in the Wunder reader — free

*1765.--=Knud Leems.= Beskrivelse over Finmarkens Lapper, 1765.

*1767.--=Canutus Leemius.= De Lapponibus Finmarchiae eorumque lingua, vita et religione historia, c. notis =J. E. Gruneri=. (Text in Latin and Danish.) 2 Vols. 4^o. with 100 figgs.

*1768.--=Jonston.= Historia naturalis de piscibus et cetis, et de serpentibus et draconibus. Rouan, 1768.

*1771.--=Knud Leems.= Nachrichten von den Lappen in Finmarken, ihrer Sprache, Sitten, u. s. w. Aus dem Dän. übers. v. =J. J. Volckmann=. Leipzig, 1771. 8^o.

*1789.--=Paul Egede.= (Intelligences from Greenland, in the original Danish language). Kjoebenhavn, 1789.

*1790.--=Paul Egede.= Nachrichten von Groenland aus einem Tagebuch geführt von 1721-1788. Kopenhagen, 1790.

*1805.--=Peter Ascanius.= Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enluminées d’histoire naturelle du Nord. Cah. V. Copenhague 1805. (In the first four Cahiers the author does not touch the subject).

1808, Nov.--The Philosophical Magazine. Vol. 32, p. 190.

1809, Jan.--The Philosophical Magazine. Vol. 33, p. 90.

1809, March.--The Philosophical Magazine. Vol. 33, p. 251.

1809, May.--The Philosophical Magazine. Vol. 33, p. 411.

1809, July.--=E. Home.= An anatomical account of the Squalus Maximus, which, etc.--Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society at London, 1809. Vol. 98, p. 206-220.

1811, March.--=Dr. Barclay.= Remarks on some parts of the animal that was cast ashore on the Island of Stronsa, September 1808.--Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, Vol. I.

1817, Aug. 20.--Extract from a letter from =S. G. Perkins=, Esq. dated Boston, Aug. 20, 1817, to =E. Everett=, in Paris.--(This extract, a manuscript, preserved in the Library of the Royal University of Göttingen, has never before been printed.)

*1817, Oct. 15.--The Columbian (newspaper).

*1817, Oct. 22 or 23.--(A New York newspaper).

1817, Nov. 13.--Letter from =Edward Everett= in Paris to the “Obermedicinalrath und Ritter” =Blumenbach= in Göttingen.--(This letter preserved in the Library of the Royal University of Göttingen, has never before appeared in print).

1817, Dec.--Report of a Committee of the Linnaean Society of New England relative to a large marine animal, supposed to be a sea-serpent, seen near Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in August, 1817. 8^o. Boston, 1817, with two plates, 52 pg.

*1817.--Transactions of the Linnaean Society of New England. Boston, 1817.

1818, April.--=H. M. Ducrotay de Blainville.= Sur un nouveau genre de Serpent, Scoliophis, et le Serpent de mer vu en Amérique en 1817.--Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d’Histoire Naturelle. Vol. 86. Paris, 1818.

1818, June.--Sur le serpent nommé Scoliophis.--Extrait d’une lettre de =M. A. Lesueur= au Rédacteur (=Mr. H. M. Ducrotay de Blainville=). Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d’Histoire Naturelle. Vol. 86. Paris 1818.

1818.--=Hoffmann= and =Oken=. Thier von Stronsa. =Oken’s= Isis, II, 1818, p. 2096.

1818.--=W. D. Peck.= Some Observations on the Sea-Serpent.--Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Vol. IV. Part 1. Cambridge 1818.

1818.--American Sea Serpent.--The Journal of Science and the Arts.--Edited at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Vol. IV. London, 1818, p. 378.

1818.--American Sea-Serpent.--The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts. R. Inst. Vol. VI. London, 1818, p. 163.

1818.--Wieder eine ungeheure Meerschlange an America.--=Oken’s= Isis, 1818, p. 2100.

*1818, June 9.--Commercial Advertiser, Boston.

1818, Aug. 21.--(Boston Newspaper). A paragraph from this newspaper is preserved in the library of the Royal University of Göttingen.

← Previous chapterAll chaptersNext chapter →

The Great Sea-Serpent · The Wunder Library — complete classics, free to read, with narration.

© 2026 Wunder Learning LLC · Terms & Privacy