Funny thing, David Blamires, who writes on DJ, is a Quaker, and Tony Stoneburner, who wrote his thesis on him, is ‘a Baptist minister very well up on theology and church history, and his wife is a Presbyterian ministrix (or is it the other way round?)’.

A variety of features distinguish blackbelly lanternsharks from the other lanternsharks. These include the arrangement and number of their denticles, and subtle differences in fin size and coloration.

Do not think my reverend father that I am beknowing to all the affairs of the savages, there is a great deal wanting: they come to us about the affairs of their conscience, but as to the rest they consult us but little.

[…] his appetite for vulgar praise had not yet been surfeited;