Literature on the Subject.
An asterisk (*), placed before the works, mentioned in the list,
signifies that the author has had no opportunity to consult them.
1555.--=Olaus Magnus.= Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus,
earumque diversis statibus, conditionibus, etc., etc. Romae, 1555, p.
771.
*1556.--=Olaus Magnus.= Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, etc.,
etc., (Editio nec Romae nec Basileae).
1560.--=Gesner.= Nomenclator aquatilium animantium (= Historia
animalium liber IV), Tiguri, 1560, p. 93, 94.
1567.--=Olaus Magnus.= Historia de gentium septentrionalium variis
conditionibus statibusve, etc., etc., Basileae, 1567, p. 799.
*1608.--=Edward Topsell.= The history of serpents, or the second
booke of living creatures. With wood cuts in-fol. London, 1608, (315
pag.).
1640.--=Aldrovandus.= Serpentum et draconum historiae libri duo.
Bononiae, 1640, p. 58, 59, 296.
1653.--=Jonston.= Historiae naturalis de piscibus et cetis libri V,
et de serpentibus et draconibus libri II. Francofurti, 1653.
1657.--=Jonston.= Historiae naturalis de piscibus et cetis libri V,
et de serpentibus et draconibus libri II, Amstelodami, 1657.
1660.--=Jonston.= Naeukeurige beschrijving van de natuur der vissen
en der slangen en draken. Amsterdam, 1660. Deel II en IV.
*1665.--=Jonston.= Historiae naturalis de piscibus et cetis libri V,
et de serpentibus et draconibus libri II, Amstelodami, 1665.
1667.--=Milton.= Paradise Lost. I, 192-208.
1668.--=Charleton.= Onomasticon zoicon. Londini, 1668. p. 34.
*1670.--=Berndsen.= Danmarks og Norges fruchtbare Herlighed, 1670?
1674.--=Adam Olearius.= Gottorfische Kunstkammer. Schleswig, 1674.
*1690.--=Ramus.= Norges Beskrivelse, 1690?
1718.--=Jonston.= Theatrum universale omnium animalium, Amstelaedami.
Edidit =Ruysch=. 1718.
*1722.--=Jean Baptiste Labat.= Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de
l’Amérique, contenant l’histoire naturelle de ces pays, etc. 6 Vols.
Paris, Giffard, 1722. 12^o.
1724.--=Jean Baptiste Labat.= Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de l’Amérique,
contenant l’histoire naturelle de ces pays, etc. 6 Vols. La Haye,
1724.
1725.--=Père Labat.= Nieuwe reizen naar de franse eilanden van
Amerika: In ’t Nederlandsch in ’t ligt gebracht door =W. C. Dijks=.
Amsterdam, 1725, Vol. IV. P. I. p. 43.--Vol. IV. P. II. p. 105.
*1730.--=P. Dass.= Beskrivelse over Nordland. 1730?
*1740.--=Hans Egede.= (A Full and Particular Relation of his Voyage
to Greenland, as a Missionary, in the year 1734, printed in Danish
at) Kjoebenhavn, 1740.
*1740.--=Hans Egede.= Ausführliche und Wahrhafte Nachricht vom
Anfange und Fortgange der Groenländischen Mission, etc. Hamburg,
1740. 4^o.
1741.--=Paul Egede.= Continuation af Relationerne betreffende den
Groenlanske Mission, Tilstand og Beskaffenhed, Kjoebenhavn, 1741.
*1741.--=Paul Egede.= Fortgesetzte Relationen die Groenländische
Mission betreffend; Kopenhagen, 1741.
1741.--=Hans Egede.= Det gamle Groenlands nye Perlustration.
Kjoebenhavn, 1741.
1742.--=Hans Egede.= Des alten Groenlands neue Perlustration.
Copenhagen, 1742.
*1742.--=Paul Egede.= Journal of the mission to Greenland, 2^d. Vol.
London, 1742. (The first Vol. by =Hans Egede=, and the third Vol. by
=Niels Egede= do not contain anything about the subject.)
*1742.--=Labat.= Nouveau Voyage aux Isles françaises de l’Amérique,
VII, p. 341. Paris, 1742.
1742.--=Charles Owen.= An Essay towards a Natural History of
Serpents. London, John Gray, 1742.
*1743?--=Paul Egede.= Efterretninger om Grönland. Kjöbenhavn, 1743?
p. 45-46.
*1745.--=Hans Egede.= A description of Greenland. London. 1745.
1746--=Hans Egede.= Beschrijving van Oud Groenland, Delft, 1746.
*1753--=Eric Pontoppidan.= Det förste Forsög paa Norges natuurlige
Historie. Kjoebenhavn, 2^d. Vol. 1753.
1754.--=Erich Pontoppidan.= Versuch einer natuerlichen Historie von
Norwegen, 2^d. Vol. Cap. VIII. § 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Kopenhagen, 1754.
1755.--=Eric Pontoppidan.= The Natural History of Norway. London,
1755.
*1760.--=Hans Egede.= New Natural History of Greenland. 1760.?
1763.--=Hans Egede.= Description et Histoire Naturelle de Groenland.
Copenhague et Genève, 1763.
1763.--=Hans Egede.= Beschreibung und Naturgeschichte von Groenland.
Berlin, 1763.
*1764.--=Jonston.= Theatrum universale omnium animalium. Heilbron,
1764.
*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.
1818, Sept. 11.--Letter from =Mr. Andrews Norton= to =Mr. George
Bancroft=, at that time a resident at Göttingen.--The letter is
preserved in the library of the Royal University of Göttingen, and
has never before appeared in print.
*1818.--W .... On the history of the Great
Sea-Serpent.--=Blackwood’s= _Magazine_, III. p. 33-42.
1819, Jan.--American Sea-Serpent.--_The Philosophical Magazine_, Vol.
LIII, p. 71.
1819.--=W. D. Peck.= Some observations on the Sea Serpent.--_The
Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science and the Arts. R. Inst._ Vol.
VIII. London, 1819, p. 68.
1819.--_Scoliophis._ Eine neue Schlangen-Sippe.--=Oken’s= _Isis_,
1819, p. 113.
1819.--Meerschlange in Amerika. =Lesueur= aus Amerika an
=Blainville=.--=Oken’s= _Isis_, 1819. p. 263.
1819.--Ueber die Meerschlange an Amerika. Von =T. Say= aus
Philadelphia an =Leach= in London.--=Oken’s= _Isis_, 1819, p. 653.
1819.--Einige Bemerkungen über die Meerschlange von Amerika, von =W.
D. Peck=, Prof. d. N. G. in Amerika.--=Oken’s= _Isis_, 1819, p. 1123.
*1819. Aug. 19.--_Boston Daily Advertiser._
*1819.--_Boston Centinel._
1819.--Amerikanische Meerschlange.--=Oken’s= _Isis_, 1819. p. 1754.
1819. Nov.--=C. S. Rafinesque Schmaltz.= Dissertation on
Water-Snakes, Sea-Snakes and Sea-Serpents.--_Philosophical Magazine._
Vol. LIV.
1820, May.--=Prof. Jacob Bigelow.= Documents and Remarks respecting
the Sea-Serpent.--=Silliman’s= _American Journal of Science and
Arts._ Vol. II, p. 147-154. Boston (1819) 1820.
1820.--De beruchte Zeeslang op de kusten van
Noord-Amerika.--_Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen voor 1820_, Tweede
Stuk, Mengelwerk, Amsterdam, 1820.
1821.--On the American Sea-Serpent.--_The Philosophical Magazine and
Journal_, Vol. 57, 1821, p. 356-359.
1821.--=Walter Scott.= The Pirate, Vol. I, Chp. II.
1821.--=Otto von Kotzebue.= Entdeckungs-Reise in die Süd-See und nach
der Behrings-Strasse zur Erforschung einer nordöstlichen Durchfahrt.
Unternommen in den Jahren 1815, 1816, 1817 und 1818. Weimar, 1821,
Zweiter Band, p. 108.
*1821.--=Otto von Kotsebue.= Voyage of discovery into the South-Sea
and Behring’s Straits, London, 1822.
1821.--Sea-Serpent.--_The Philosophical Magazine and Journal_, Vol.
58, p. 454.
1821.--Analysis of one of the Vertebrae of the Orkney Animal.--_The
Edinburgh Philosophical Journal._ Vol. V, p. 227.
1822. Jan.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und
Heilkunde_, I, n^o. 19, p. 294.
1822.--=Dr. Hibbert.= Description of the Shetland-Islands. London,
1822, p. 565.
1822.--=Otto von Kotsebue.= Ontdekkingsreis in de Zuid-Zee en naar de
Behrings straat in de jaren 1815, 1816, 1817 en 1818, tweede deel p.
277. Amsterdam, 1822.
*1822. June, 15.--_New-York_ ... (newspaper).
1822. Aug.--Die sogenannte Seeschlange.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem
Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde_, III, n^o. 48, p. 53.
1823. Febr.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und
Heilkunde_, IV, n^o. 68, p. 24.
1823.--=A. de Capell Brooke.= Travels through Sweden, Norway and
Finmark in the Summer of 1820. London 1823.
1823. June.--Nachrichten über die grosse Seeschlange.--=Froriep’s=
_Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde_, IV, n^o. 84, p.
273.
*1824.--_Newbury port_ ... (newspaper).
1824.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und
Heilkunde_, VIII, n^o. 168, p. 218.
*1826. June 21.--_New York Advertiser._
1826. Oct.--Sea-Serpent.--_The American Journal of Science and Arts_,
conducted by =Benjamin Silliman=, Vol. XI.
1827.--=Dr. Hooker.= Additional testimony respecting the Sea-Serpent
of the American Seas.--_The Edinburgh Journal of Science_, Vol. VI,
1827, p. 126.
1827, April.--=Dr. Hooker.= Fernere Zeugnisse über die Seeschlange in
den Amerikanischen Meere.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem Gebiete der
Natur- und Heilkunde_, XVIII, n^o. 256, p. 49.
1827, June.--Sea Serpent.--_The American Journal of Science and
Arts_, conducted by =Benjamin Silliman=, Vol. XII, June, 1827, New
Haven.
*1827, Aug.--Norwegische Handelszeitung zu Christiania.
*1827, Sept. 5.--Norwegische Handelszeitung zu Christiania.
*1827, Sept. 15.--Norwegische Handelszeitung zu Christiania.
1828, Jan.--=Froriep’s= _Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und
Heilkunde_, XIX, n^o. 409, p. 193.
*1828.--=John Fleming.= A history of British Animals, etc.,
Edinburgh, 1828.
1829.--=Sam. L. Mitchill.= The history of Sea
Serpentism.--=Silliman’s= _American Journal of Science and Arts_,
1829.