FIGURES. 101 



lu 1765, a most wretclied and ludicroiTS caricature of the 

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

 abused Wahnis 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 17G5, and soon after copied by Schreber.| This 



Fig. 12. "Zc Morse, Buffon, xiii, t. 548, 1765. (Reduced two-fiftlis.)" 



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 Grifidth's Animal Kingdom (vol. ii, lA. v), which 

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

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

 barring tiie posterior direction of the hind Umbs, appeared in the 

 ' ' Disciples edition " 1 1 of Cuvier's Eegne Animal, copied from Pal- 



* Spitzbergiscbe Reisebeschreibiuig, i)l. P, fig. h. This fig. is also repro- 

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



tHistoire Naturelle, t. xiii, pi. liv. 



+ Sauget., pi. Ixxix. 



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



II Le Rfegne Animal, etc., par Georges Cuvier. ''Edition accompagu^e des 

 planches grav6es, .... 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 dessin^e d'apres cello qu'a domi6e Pal- 

 las dans la Zoographia Eosso -Asiatica, et r^form^e, pour le pose, d'apres un 

 croquis in6dit de Choris; au vingtieme environ de la grandeur natureUe." 



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 figiu-e here 

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

 mined. 



