78 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 
Museum of Edinburgh University, and its collections were 
transferred to and formed the basis of the zoological 
collection in the Industrial Museum, now the Royal 
Scottish Museum. In the old manuscript register of the 
Royal Museum of the University, now in the possession 
of the Royal Scottish Museum, there occurs the following 
entry in the list of “ Additions to the College Museum for 
1025-20 4 (p, 70): 16. Skull) offal Sea-horse irommsam 
individual killed in Orkney. Presented by Mr Scarth.” 
Neither the entry nor the accounts give any indication 
of the subsequent fate of the “skull” or head, as it should 
have been described ; but examination of the various Walrus 
remains transferred from the University, and now in the 
Royal Scottish Museum, has led me to the conclusion that 
a poorly mounted head, the hinder portion of which has 
been roughly sheared off, leaving only the muzzle and tusks, 
represents the Orkney example of 1825. The remains are 
those of a large individual, the muzzle measuring 1 foot 
across, and the tusks, each of which bears faintly marked 
the number “9,” corresponding to the number in the Register, 
are 16 inches in length and 8 inches in circumference at 
the base. 
The Severn Walrus (23) of 1839 was “quite young, as 
it measured only about 7 or 8 feet in length.” One Long- 
hope individual (17), reported by Mr Moodie Heddle to 
Buckley and Harvie-Brown (Vert. Fauna of Orkney Islands, 
1891, p. 66)—an individual to whose visit no definite date 
can be ascribed, except that it was before 1864—was at 
least of moderate development, for it caused annoyance “to 
people going to church by putting its tusks over the gun- 
wale of the boat.” A second individual (18) seen in the 
same neighbourhood, at Hawick, Longhope, had “tusks 
quite visible, but not very long.” 
The tusks of the Skerries Walrus of 1920 were 
I2 to 15 inches long; and Mr Jamieson, who saw the 
creature on several occasions, in comparing its appearance 
with that of specimens in the Royal Scottish Museum, 
described it to the writer as resembling an individual whose 
length is some 7 feet. 
