Naturalists have recorded a few instances of the capture of the Greenland shark in the British seas. Dr Fleming states that one was caught in 1803 in the Pentland Firth, and that one was found dead at Buna Firth, Unst, in 1824. Mr Yarrell refers to a specimen caught on the coast of Durham in 1840, which has been preserved in the Durham University Museum. In May 1859, a specimen about ten feet long was caught in the Firth of Forth, near Inchkeith, the stuffed skin of which is preserved in the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art. In 1862 a specimen was caught on the Dogger Bank, and brought into Leith. A brief description of its externarcharacter was read by Mr W. S. Young to the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh.