[146] Vol. viii. pp. 1-16.
[147] Trichechus, from the Greek τριχας εχων, "having hairs:" walrus, the German wallross, "whale-horse."
[148] See Fleming's "British Animals," p. 19.
[149] Mém. Acad. Imp. Sc. St. Pétersb., 1838, p. 232. Professor Owen has communicated to the Zoological Society the anatomy of the young walrus; and much valuable information will be found in Dr Gray's "Catalogue of Mammalia in the British Museum."
[150] "Distant Correspondents," in the Essays of Elia, first series ed. 1841, p. 67.
[151] Jesse's "Life of Beau Brummell," vol. i. p. 288.
[152] "Memoirs, Correspondence," &c., edited by Lord John Russell, vol. iii. p. 179.
[153] So called from the Latin word marsupium, a pouch.
[154] Diabolus ursinus, the ursine opossum of Van Diemen's Land, a great destroyer of young lambs.
[155] From the Greek words for a pouch and a dog, θὑλακος and κὡον. Dr Gray had previously named it Peracyon, from πἡρα, a bag, and κὑων, a dog.