ARTICLE V. 
NOTICE OF REMAINS OF THE WALRUS DISCOVERED ON THE COAST OF THE 
UNITED STATES. 
BY JOSEPH LEIDY, M.D. 
[Read, June 20, 1856.| 
Well-authenticated remains of the Walrus appear never to have been discovered in 
any other than the most recent geological formations. 
In a report presented to the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, Messrs. Mitchell, 
J. A. Smith, and Cooper, give notice of the discovery of a specimen, consisting of the an- 
terior portion of a Walrus skull, from the sea beach of Accomac Co. Virginia.* These 
gentlemen observe that the fragment bears the greatest resemblance to the corresponding 
portion of the skull of the existing species of Walrus, as compared with the figures given 
by Cuvier in the “Ossemens Fossiles.” The specimen now preserved in the cabinet of 
the New York Lyceum, is represented in two outline figures by De Kay, who under the 
impression that it indicates an extinct species, has given for this the name of Tichecus 
Virginianus+ 
In the summer of 1853, Professor J. F. Frazer of this city discovered the skull of a 
Walrus on the sea beach at Long Branch, Monmouth County, New Jersey. The speci- 
men which has lately been presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences, has lost a 
portion of the cranium proper, and the exserted portion of one tusk, but otherwise, except 
being a little water worn, is ina good state of preservation. It is unchanged in texture, 
and nearly so in colour; and it belonged to an old individual, as all the sutures are completely 
obliterated. (Plate IV., fig. 1; V., fig. 1.) 
* Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History, IL. 271. 
} Natural History of New York, Part I. Zoology, p. 56; pl. XIX. figs. 1 a, b. 
