Remains of the walrus (?) in Maine

Abstract

When received in Cambridge, May 14, 1881, the water of both bottles gave out an excessively disagreeable odor of putrefying organic matter, and ammonia was given off in considerable quantities, as was shown by holding a rod moistened with hydrochloric acid over the mouths of the bottles. In one bottle there was a greenish-colored, slimy deposit an inch deep, and the water above was clear. In the second bottle the

The Walrus in New England

“…The third Maine fossil skeleton was discovered in 1881, when several ribs, portions of two limbs, and a digital phalanx were found at Reef Point, near Addison Point, by C. H. Boyd (1881). They had washed out of a bank on the eastern side of Pleasant River, about three miles below Addison.…”