FIGURES. 101 



In 1765, a most wretched and ludicrous caricature of the 

 Walrus was contributed by Martens.* In this figure, the much- 

 abused Walrus is represented as having an enormously large 

 and shapeless head, in which the small tusks are set widely 

 apart ; it has small Seal-like fore feet, and no hind limbs, or, if 

 present, they are directed backward, and look more like a fish's 

 tail than distinct limbs. The tusks alone give the figure any 

 suggestion of what it was intended to represent. 



The next figure of which I have knowledge was published by 

 Buffon,t also in 1765, and soon after copied by Schreber.f This 



FIG. 12. "Ze Morse, Buffon, xiii, t, 548, 1765. (Reduced two-fifths.)" 



was evidently drawn from a stuffed specimen, to which the taxi- 

 dermist had given the attitude and general form of a common 

 Seal. In 1827, a very fair figure of the head (the animal being 

 supposed to be in the water, with only the head visible) was 

 published in Griffith's Animal Kingdom (vol. ii, pi. v), which 

 was later repeated by Hamilton, and also elsewhere. In 1836, 

 a very fair, colored figure (evidently from a stuffed specimen), 

 barring the posterior direction of the hind limbs, appeared in the 

 "Disciples edition" || of Cuvier's Eegne Animal, copied from Pal- 



* Spitzbergische Reisebeschreibiuig, pi. P, fig. &. This fig. is also repro- 

 duced by Gray (1. c., fig. 7), and is here copied as Fig. 11. 



t Histoire Naturelle, t. xiii, pi. liv. 



t Sauget., pi. Ixxix. 



Amphibious Carnivora, p. 106, in Jard. Nat. Library, Mam., vol. viii. 



|| Le Regne Animal, etc., par Georges Cuvier. "Edition accompague'e des 

 planches gravies, .... par une reunion de disciples de Cuvier," etc. Paris, 

 1836 et seq. 



The Walrus is figured in "Mammiferes," pi. xliv. The history of the 

 figure is given as follows: "Figure dessine'e d'apres cello qu'a donnee Pal- 

 las dans la Zoographia Eosso -Asiatica, et re'forme'e, pour le pose, d'apres nn 

 croquis inddit de Choris; au vingtieine environ de la grandeur naturelle." 



The only copy of Pallas's "Icones" accessible to me is imperfect, and has 

 not the figure here copied. There is, however, a quite different one, which 

 will be noticed later in another connection. Whether Pallas's figure here 

 copied represents the Atlantic or the Pacific species cannot well be deter- 

 mined. 



