Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history (1898)
Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889, Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888, Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer, Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884, Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history, National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI · New York : Selmar Hess · leaf 129
der should look at the enormous specimen of this creature in the Museum at Central Park, to form anything approaching an adequate idea of its proportions. When we observe the immense bulk, almost unprovided with limbs (for the latter are so small they seem out of all proportion to the… … difficult to see how the creature can feed with those ivory canines directed straight downwards. Nature never fails of its purposes, but there are instances of organization and structure that surprise us and baffle our comprehension. The Walrus is seen in vast herds at times, frequenting both polar…
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