230 MOSTLY MAMMALS 
that the jaws and teeth, which had been mounted in 
the skin, were sold by the Museum to the Royal College 
of Surgeons in 1809, the specimen appears to have been 
destroyed early in the last century. The aforesaid jaws 
and teeth are still preserved in the museum of the College 
of Surgeons. 
Although many years later a female skin, presented by 
the Admiralty, was mounted and exhibited, from the date 
of the destruction of Lord Anson’s specimen the British 
Museum till quite recently had no example of either skin 
or skeleton of an adult male of this giant seal to show 
the public. The deficiency has been made good by the 
generosity of Mr. Walter Rothschild, and the mounted 
skin and skeleton of two nearly adult males are now 
exhibited in the same case. Unfortunately the taxidermist 
has not been as successful as he might have been in the 
mounting of the skin; but nevertheless the specimens 
suffice to convey an adequate idea of the huge bulk of 
the creature and the leading peculiarities of its form. 
It may be mentioned here that Anson’s figure and 
description afforded to Linnzeus his only knowledge of the 
species, and upon this evidence was established his Phoca 
leonina, the specific title being the equivalent of Anson’s 
“sea-lyon.” As the real sea-lions are totally different 
animals—eared seals, in fact—it is a great pity that this 
name was ever given, but, as being the earliest, it has to 
stand, and cannot be replaced, as proposed by some writers, 
by the more appropriate ¢/ephantina. As the elephant- 
seal differs very widely from the common seal and its 
immediate relatives, it could not, of course,-with the advance 
of zoological science, be suffered to remain in the same 
genus, and it accordingly now typifies a group by itself 
under the name of Macrorhinus leoninus. 
