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ON page 258 of ” A History of British Quadrupeds” (1837), Thomas Bell states that ” it is a matter of great satisfaction to me that I am enabled to increase the catalogue of British Seals by the addition of two species, one of which, probably the Long-bodied Seal of Dr. Parsons, has been discovered on the coast of Ireland by Mr. Ball; the other has been taken in the Severn, the remains of two specimens of which are now in the Museum of the Bristol Institution”. Later, on page 270, he states that Dr. Riley exhibited two crania at the meeting of the British Association at Bristol in August 1836, and that they were afterwards identified as Phoca groenlandica. Doubt was later cast on the identification by Robert Ball in a paper ” On the Seals of Ireland (Phocidæ)”, Proc. Royal Irish Academy 1836–7, Part 1, pp. 18, 19 (1837) and he ” expressed his belief that the species was still to be determined”.
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TETLEY, H. Greenland Seal in British Waters. Nature 137, 192 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137192a0
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