WALEUS. 
The first walrus purchased for the Society was brought 
to this country in 1853. 
The second was brought to Dundee by one of the 
whalers belonging to Messrs. Stevens, on October 24, 
1867. I went to Dundee to see this walrus, purchased 
it for £200, and brought it to London on board one of the 
steamers bound from that place for the Thames, where it 
safely arrived. 
Its food consisted, principally, of mussels and clams, 
which 1 obtained from Yorkshire. It would also feed 
upon the flesh of whiting and cod-fish cut up without the 
bone. This animal lived, I think, about four months, the 
cause of death being perforation of the coats of the stomach 
by parasitic worms, which were, at the time, fully described 
by Dr. Murie in the Proceedings of the Society. 
As the animal when alive was immature, the tusks not 
being more than 2 in. or 3 in. long, I had the skull of an 
adult male walrus with fully-developed tusks, which were 
probably 15 in. or 16 in. in length, fastened to a tree in 
the walrus paddock, in order that the visitors might form 
an idea of the size of the skull and teeth of the full-grown 
animal. I was much amused one day by a decent-looking 
man, who appeared to be taking great interest in and 
studying the beast, asking me if he had shed that slmll. 
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