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same individual exhibited at different times in the two coun- 

 tries, and devises an ingenious explanation for the origin of the 

 supposed discrepancy of dates. He seems to be led into these 

 doubts by the similarity of some of the circumstances attend- 

 ing the capture and exhibition of these animals, and the close 

 agreement of the dates. Master Welden's account of the cap- 

 ture and transportation of his specimen to London, and of its 

 early death there, seems, however, too explicit to be overthrown 

 by mere conjecture. There is apparently no reason for suppos- 

 ing that the London specimen was ever seen ahve in Holla ird. 



From a statement in Camper's writings, it would appear that 

 a living specimen reached Amsterdam about or before 1 78G, as 

 he refers to having seen the living Walrus in that city.* But 

 of this specimen there appears to be no further record. The 

 specimen taken to St. Petersburg from Archangel, and described 

 by von Baer, lived only a week after its arrival in St. Peters- 

 burg. 



In 1853, a second living specimen reached London, and wa& 

 placed in ihe Gardens of the Zoological Society, where, how- 

 ever, it survived only a few days, dying apparently of improper 

 and insufficient food. A third specimen, captured in Davis's 

 Straits, August 28, 18G7, reached the Zoological Society's Gar- 

 dens in London about October 28 of the same year, where it 

 lived tiU December 19, or for nearly five weeks, when it died of 

 chronic gastritis induced by the immense number of intestinal 

 worms {Ascaris), by which it was unfortunately infested.f The 

 first London and Holland specimens were quite young animals, 

 as were also probably aU the others. The second London speci- 

 men (1853) was a " very young" female, but I have seen no fur- 

 ther statement respecting its probable age or its size. The 

 third London specimen (1867), a male, was judged to be less 

 than a year old, but measured 8 feet in length and weighed 

 about 250 pounds. No other specimen has thus far, so far as I 

 can learn, been taken alive to any point south of the Scandi- 

 navian ports, to which, according to Brown, they have of late 

 been frequently carried, i: 



That the Wakus, when young, possesses, like the common 

 Seals, a high degree of docility and intelligence, is amply evi- 



* Camper says : " . . . . et que j'en avois vii plusieiirs mgme un 

 vivant a Amsterdam." CEuvres, tome ii, 1803, p. 481. 

 tbee Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, p. 818, and 1868, p. 67. 

 tProe. Zool. Soc, 1868, p. 431. 



