FIGURES. 95 



two great tusks in the upper jaw, but no other resemblance to 

 the Walrus.* 



The figures published by Olaus Magnus were, according to 

 von Baer, all faithfully copied by Gesner, t who added to them 



PIG. 8. "Rosmarus. Gesner, Icones Animalium, 1560, p. 178. De Cetis, 

 Ord. xii. (Reduced two-thirds.)" 



another, which he received from Strassburg. This| represents, 

 as von Baer terms it, the " morphological paradox" of a verte- 

 brate with two pairs of feet, a pair of wings or floats (" Flossen"), 

 and a fish's tail. The head has considerable resemblance to that 

 of a Walrus, with the large tusks properly situated in the upper 

 jaw, and the eyes and nose are passably represented. The feet 

 are all directed backward, in a swimming posture, and armed 

 with strong claws. The Seal-like body has engrafted upon it the 

 tail of a fish, while at the shoulder is seen a sort of wing-like 

 appendage. The figure of the head is said to have been drawn 

 in Strassburg from an actual specimen afterward sent by the 

 bishop of Drontheim to the Pope, but to this was added a 

 wholly imaginary figure of the body. Gesner's figure was sev- 

 eral times copied, among others by Ambrosinus in 1642, in 

 his Addenda to Aldrovandus's work, and also t>y Jonston || in 

 1657. 



In 1598, De Veer, in a work entitled " The Navigation into 

 the Forth- Seas," ft gave an illustration entitled "The Portrait- 

 ure of our boats and how we nearly got into difficulty with the 

 Seahorses." In this picture are depicted several Seal-like ani- 



* This figure is not included in Gray's series. 



t Icones Animalium, 1553, and Historia Animalium, 1558. 



t See Fig. 8, copied by Gray from Gesner. 



" Paralipomena, etc., adnexa ad Aldrovandi Historiam Monstroruni, 

 p. 106," according to von Baer. 



i| De Piscibus, pi. xliv. 



1T Amsterdam, 1598; translated and republished in London in 1609, and 

 reprinted from the London edition by the Haklnyt Society in 1853, the last- 

 named being the edition here quoted. 



