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The IVild Elephant. 



reservoir for water, and performs no function in the pre- 

 paration of food. ^ 



Whilst Professor Owen was advancing this conjecture, 

 another comparative anatomist, from the examination of 

 another portion of the structure of the elephant, was led 

 to a somewhat similar conclusion. Dr. Harrison of 



rhe Trachea 

 drawn over, 

 bringing into 

 view its pos- 

 terior surface 

 at the bifur- 

 cation . , . 



(Esophagus. 



The Trachca- 



CEsoiihageal 



F-lastic Tissue 

 connecting Tra- 

 chea, Bronchi, 

 (Esophagus, and 

 Trachea - (Eso- 

 phageal Muscle 

 to the Dia- 

 phragm, 



Dublin had, in 1847, an opportunity of dissecting the 

 body of an elephant which had suddenly died; and in 

 the course of his examination of the thoracic viscera 

 he observed that an unusually close connection existed 

 between the trachea and cesophagus, which he found to 

 depend on a muscle unnoticed by any previous anatomist, 



' A similar arrangement, with some lurden in the Cordilleras of Chili and 



modifications, has more recently been Peru : but both these and the camel 



found in the llama of the Andes, which, are ruminants, whilst the elephant 



like the camel, is used as a beast of belongs to the Pachydermata. 



