MONODON MONOCEROS. 



GET ACE A. 



r _ _ 



Fossil fragment of the tush of a Narwhal, nat. size. 



MONODON MONOCEROS. Narwhal. 



Nurwtial, PARKINSON, Organic Remains. 4to., 1811, vol. iii. p. 309. 



Narvalfossik, CUVIER, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to., 1825, vol. v. pt. i. 



p. 349. 



Monodonfossilis, H. v. MEYER, Palaeologica, 8vo., 1832, p. 99. 



Monodon monoceros, OWEN, Report of British Association, 1842. 



THE following is the evidence of the existence, during the 

 deposition of our tertiary strata, of the very remarkable 

 species of Cetaceous animal, whose spiral tusk so long 

 perplexed the older naturalists, and still figures in heraldry 

 as the horn of the fabulous Unicorn. 



Mr. Parkinson, in the work above cited, states that 

 two fossil fragments of the long-projecting and spirally- 

 twisted tooth of the Narwhal were formerly in the mu- 

 seum of Sir Ashton Lever ; and he adds, " One of these 

 I now possess, and strongly suspect it to have been found 

 on the Essex coast." 



