On the elephant seal (Macrorhinus leoninus, Linn.) / by William H. Flower.

  • Flower, William Henry, 1831-1899.
Date:
1881
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the elephant seal (Macrorhinus leoninus, Linn.) / by William H. Flower. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    [From the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, January 4, 1881.] ON THE ELEPHANT SEAL (MACSOSHINUS LEONINUS, Linn.). BY WILLIAM H. FLOWER, LL.D., F.R.S., P.Z.S., etc. The Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England has lately received from the Falkland Islands a very fine skull of an adult Elephant Seal. As this is a larger specimen than any with which I am acquainted, I have thought that it might interest the Fellows of the Society to see it; and I have availed myself of the opportunity afforded me by its exhibition to put together some notes regarding certain points in the structure and affinities of an animal which, notwithstanding its former abundance and wide distribution, and its great zoological interest, is still very imperfectly known anatomically, and very poorly represented in collections. Proc. Zool. Soc.—1881, No. X. 10