The Hunting of the Snark based on a draft by Lewis Carroll, the Snark was allowed to show up in an illustration by Henry Holiday, where it appeared in a dream of the Barrister. The illustration to the chapter "The Banker's Fate" might contain pictorial references to the etching "The Image Breakers" by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, to William Sidney Mount's painting "The Bone Player" and to a photograph by Benjamin Duchenne used for a drawing in Charles Darwin's "The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals". Upon the printing of the book on 29 March 1876, Carroll gave away eighty signed copies to his
Extinct animals from the Isle of Man and immobilise, any sheep which was pointed out" (W. Walter Gill). The following extract is believed to have been written by a Ms. A. L. J. Gosset; It continues ... It continues ... Manx horses also became extinct c. 1820–1830. Of them Thomas Quayle said, The Manx pig were known to the locals as 'purrs'. They had completely died long before Thomas Quayle wrote this about them; Four species of birds that once bred on the Isle of Man have gone extinct locally, of these the great auk is extinct worldwide. N.B. None of these animals were solely native to