FIGURES. 95 



two great tusks in the upper jaw, but no otlier 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 



Fig. 8. " Eosmarus. Gesner, Icones Animalium, 1560, p. 178. De Cetis, 

 Old. sii. (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 upiDCr 

 jaw, and the ej'es 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 . 

 tail of a fish, while at the shoulder is seen a sort of wing 11 vo 

 appendage. The figure of the head is said to have been d ^t.^f i 

 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 by Jonston|| in 

 1657. 



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

 the North- Seas," ^ 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, 1.^53, and Historia Animalium, 1558. 



t See Fig. 8, copied h v Gray from Gesner. 



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

 p. 106," according to von Baer. 



II De Piscibu8. pi. xliv. 



IT Amsterdam, 1598; translated and republished in London in 1609, and 

 a'ei>rinted from the London edition by the Haklnyt Society in 1853, the last- 

 named being the edition hiere quoted. 



