XII. An anatomical account of the Squalus maximus (of Linnæus), which in the structure of its stomach forms an intermediate link in the gradation of animals between the whale tribe and cartilaginous fishes

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The fish from which the following account is taken, was entangled in the herring nets belonging to the fishermen of Hastings, off that coast, and about half-way across the Chan­nel, on the night of the 13th of November, 1808. It was brought ashore at Hastings on the following day, and my late worthy friend, Lieut. Col. Bothwell, who was on the spot, purchased it on my account. On the 17th, Mr. Clift, the Conservator of the Hunterian Museum, at my desire, went to Hastings, and after making a drawing of the fish, examined its internal structure, and brought to London such parts as were most particularly deserving of notice. The fish is a male, thirty feet six inches long from the an­ terior part of the head, to the longest extremity of the tail, and about nine feet from the extreme point of the dorsal fin to the middle line of the belly.

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