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...collection of fish in the Stanford University Museum has recently had added to it a specimen of lampris guttatus, or moonfish, of the dolphin family. These fish are very rarely secured as specimens although in the waters about Madeira they are tolerably numerous. The reason why they are so difficult to secure is because their habits are pelagic and they appear only singly near the coasts. As they are from four to six feet long and large in proportion, they cannot be caught by ordinary means, and so escape. The above specimen came from Monterey Bay. The National Museum...
Best general references: Daily papers, Jan. 29, 1893; Senator Dolphin Cong. Rec. XXIV. 38, Feb. 1, 1893, pp. 1037, 1059; Treaty and accompanying correspondence in N. Y. Tribune, Feb. 17, 1893; Overland Monthly, N. S. XI. 62 (Mar. 1888); Hawaii in our System, in N. Y. Tribune, Feb. 6, 1893; Blaine to Minister Comly, Dec. 1, 1881, in N. Y. Tribune, Feb. 1, 1893; Wharton, International Law, I. Section 62; Senate Executive Documents, 52 Cong. 2 sess...
29-4t.LOST. - Two gold scarf pins, a dolphin and a spider, with ruby body. Please return to G. Morton, 52 Hastings...
...visions of ebon and ivory, and visions of dolphin tints...