# The writer reports a shoal of large jellyfish with green tentacles off the last Williamstown pier, which he thought the wind had driven up into Hobson's Bay.

> Cite as: PLOT record c/MK95-RG v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1890), reported by source

- **Address:** c/MK95-RG, version 1 of 1 (https://www.plot.eco/c/MK95-RG)
- **Value:** As the steamer passed the last Williamstown pier, a shoal of the common large jelly-fish was encountered, whose green tentacles streamed prettily away behind the pellucid disc, producing pretty colour effects as seen through the somewhat similarly tinted water. As none were seen in mid-voyage, or near Portarlington, it seemed that the wind had driven the shoal up to Hobson’s Bay. (Historical passage)
- **About:** Williamstown
- **Kind:** Reported by source
- **Who said it:** Reported by community
- **Period:** 1890
- **Checked:** Reviewed (step 3 of 4): PLOT checked the claim against its source. This is not independent verification. Checked by a person.
- **Open questions:** None open
- **Source:** The Victorian naturalist, v.7 (1890-1891) (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria), p. 32, victoriannatural718901891fiel, leaf 52, printed page 32 <https://archive.org/details/victoriannatural718901891fiel>
- **The snippet in PLOT:** <https://www.plot.eco/s/B0Z7-BF?snippet=e997ae02-cf0d-498e-9ce0-c4ebd5d7e402>
- **How they know:** accounts-core@0.1.0: screen\_passage@1, extract\_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator victoriannatural718901891fiel, leaf 52, printed page 32
- **Limitations:** A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence.
- **Editions:** october-26th-release
- **How we found this:** Found under sourcing protocol accounts-core@0.1.0, for the question "Species written about here", in historical\_archives. Screened in on an AI proposal (Claude Opus 5.5 (AI), for review). Extracted with claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract\_passage@1; a person reviewed it before publication.
  - Query: Williamstown \| Williams Town \| Williams-town \| Point Gellibrand \| Gellibrand's Point \| Gellibrand Point \| Jawbone \| Greenwich Bay in archive.org/victoriannatural718901891fiel (archive.org OCR text, local full-text match)
  - Screening: include (meets criteria): A shoal of jellyfish off the last Williamstown pier.

## History
- Version 1 (this version): first published version

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Machine-readable: https://www.plot.eco/c/MK95-RG.json
Cite as: PLOT record c/MK95-RG v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1890), reported by source