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membraneis, pallide fuscis, coxis, femorum basi, trochanteribus 
posticis tibiisque fuscis, oculis fusco-nigris.—Fem. 
Long. a fronte ad apicem segmenti secundi abdominis 2 mill. ; lat. 
segmenti secundi abdominis | mill. 
This paper will be printed in full, illustrated with plates from the 
author’s drawings, in the Transactions of the Society. 
4. On THE Capture or Devpainus Orca in SoutH GReEEN- 
LAND. By M. Reniiitter. ComMuUNICATED By SiR WAL- 
TER TREVELYAN. 
This note contained a description of a method of capturing these 
animals with a net, which had proved so successful, that the number 
taken in Westmanhavn alone since 1843, when the net was first used, 
amounted to 2200, whereas between 1819 and 1843, 280 only had 
been secured. As each animal is considered to average thirty gal- 
lons of oil, this branch of industry has produced upwards of £4000 
sterling to the inhabitants of Westmanhavn within the last ten years. 
The meeting was then adjourned to Tuesday, November 8th. 
November 8, 1853. 
Dr. Gray, Vice-President, in the Chair, 
The following papers were read :-— 
1. On toe ANATOMY OF THE WALRUS. 
By Proressor Owen, F.R.S., F.Z.S. ere. 
Professor Owen communicated the chiet’ results of his dissection 
of the Walrus (Trichecus rosmarus) which died at the Gardens of 
the Zoological Society, October 1853. The author prefaced his ana- 
tomical description by some remarks on the physiognomy, attitudes 
and movements of the living animal; and more especially dwelt on 
the superior strength of its fin-shaped limbs, as compared with the 
ordinary Seals, the Walrus being able, when it moves on dry land, to 
raise its trunk from the ground—in other words, to walk—a mode of 
progression which strikingly contrasts with the awkward shuffle of 
the Seal, as it trails its belly on the earth, aiding its fore fins with 
the action of its powerful abdominal muscles. Both the bones and 
muscles of the fins of the Walrus are more powerfully developed than 
in the Seal, and this, the author concluded, had reference to its 
natural habitat among bergs and floes of ice, and the necessity of 
clambering among and over their rough, irregular surfaces. The 
sex of the animal dissected was female; the mammee were four in 
