98 ODOB^NUS EOSMARUS^^ATLANTIC WALRUS. 



was well worthy of repetition, being incomparably better than 

 any other made prior to those taken from the living specimen 

 received at the Zoological Gardens in London in 1853. 



Pnrchas, in his " Pilgrimes,"* gives some very interesting, 

 and in many respects excellent, representations of the Wahiis, 

 to which I find no reference in the writings of von Baer or Gray, 

 or, in fact, anywhere. In the principal of these figures, the 

 general form of the Walrus is more correctly delineated than 

 in any figure, except Gerard's, that appeared prior to 1857. 

 Barring its facial expression, and the presence of what seems 

 to be a mane, it is excellent. The general outhne of both the 

 body and the limbs are surprisingly truthful, as is likewise the 

 attitude. The hind feet are turned forward, and the size and 

 position of the tusks are correctly represented. The face, how- 

 ever, has a most ludicrous half-leonine, half-human expression, 

 which is heightened by the addition of an ear having the gen- 

 eral form of a human ear. In addition to this, the creature is 



Werke geliort und nur von dem Herausgeber oder von den Kaufern einigeu 

 Exemplaren beigebimden ist. Icli habe nicbt Gelegenbeit gebabt, das bier 

 genannte Werke zii seben und darnacb zu bestimmen, ob das Kupfer zu dem 

 Bucbe gebort, Termutbe aber eines Tbeils aus der augegebenen Seltenbeit 

 seines Vorkommens und andem Tbeils aus dem.Umstande, dass die Figur 

 in mebreren Werken des 17. Jabrbunderts wiederbolt wurde, dass sie damals 

 bekannter war, als im 18ten. Ja, icb besitze selbst ein colorirtes Blatt, das icb 

 in einer Sammlung naturbistoriscber Abbildungen in Leipzig aus dem Nacb- 

 lasse eines Naturalienbandlers kaufte und welcbes, zwar nicbt der Original- 

 Kupfersticb, docb eine Copie desselben ist. Die Farbe, welcbe beide Tbiere 

 auf meinem Blatte baben, ist ganz iibereinstimmend mit der Farbe des 

 jungen Wallrosses, das bier zu seben war. Da nun die erwacbsenen Wall- 

 Tosse in der Regel beller sind, so ist es mir wabrscbeinlicb, dass aucb die 

 Coloriruug damals nacb dem jungen Tbiere gemacbt ist." VoN Baer, I. c, 

 pp. 128, 129. 



Gray says : "In a small quarto tract, called tbe ' Histoire du Pays nomm6 

 Spitsbergbe, ^crit par H. G. A., Amsterdam, cbez Hessel Gen-ard A.', 1613, a 

 plate at page 20 contains an excellent figure of tbe Morse and its young, ' ad 

 "vivum delineatum ab Hesselo G. A.' Tbis figure was repeated in De Laet's 

 'Amer. Descript.', p. 28, 1633, by Jonston, 'Pisces', t. 44, in 1657, and by 

 Sbaw, 'Zoology', t. 68*, from Jonston." Gray copies tbis figure witb tbe 

 following title: "Fig. 9. Walniss. Ad vivum delineatum ab Hesselo G. A. 

 Histoire de Spitsbergbe, by H. G. A., 1613. Anotber edition, same date. 

 (Reduced foux-seventbs. ) " Proc. Zool. Soc. Land., 1853, p. 115. 



It would tbus appear tbat eitber Gerard's figure was publisbed simulta- 

 neously in several different works, since tbat mentioned by Gray is not tbe 

 fOne cited by von Baer, or else tbat, as von Baer suspected, and as seems 

 more jirobable, tbe xilate did not really belong to tbe work von Baer cites, 

 but merely bappeued to be bound witb it. 



*Vo]. iii, pp. 472-473 bis. 



