and Muscles of the Glrajfe. 185 



from the urethra to the os tinca3 was about 9, and the diameter 

 4"7 inclies. Uterus 10 inches long. Each cornu was relatively 

 wide, and a foot long following tlie curve. From the slightly 

 enlarged and wavy appearance of the cotyledons, and the in- 

 creased vascularity of the right horn, I believe gestation had 

 occurred on that side. The sacculated condition of the broad 

 ligament lodging the ovarium was well displayed. 



4. Muscles J tlieir adaptation to the long Jlexihle neck and 

 slender limbs*. 



Professor Owen's summary of the more important features 

 of the myology, and MM. Joly and Lavocat's list of head 

 and pharyngo-laryngeal muscles, with fair survey of those of 

 the body and legs, render it unnecessary for me to describe 

 the whole of the musculo-tendinous structures, which never- 

 theless I minutely dissected. In the English memoir, except- 

 ing the under surface of the tongue, no figures of the fleshy 

 parts are given. Whilst three myological plates accompany 

 the Strasbourg " Recherches," the views are of such a diver- 

 sified kind, regionally separate, that one fails to comprehend 

 the beautiful muscular symmetry bestowed upon this towering- 

 ruminant. My object, therefore, is, by a rapid revision, to 

 indorse and supplement the labours of these authors, and by 

 a carefully executed profile drawing of the animal in life-like 

 attitude, with some additional sketches, to depict such striking 

 myological peculiarities as heretofore have not been illustrated. 



The function of the cephalo-humeral in the giraffe is eleva- 

 tion and protraction of the fore limb ; or it may be that, when 

 the shoulder and leg are fixed, the strain can be a])plied to 

 the lower moiety of the neck, and thus drag it downwards. 

 As the French authors very neatly put it, " Cette disposition 

 d^favorable a Taction musculaire, est tout en faveur de la 

 rapidity et de I'^tendue des mouvements, par suite de la lon- 

 gueur des bras de levier sollicites." I can corroborate tlieir 

 account of the attachments, viz. its being fixed to the processes 

 on the sides of the fifth and sixth vertebrai of the neck, whence 

 from being narrow it broadens into a great sheet covering the 



* I take this opportunity of expressing my admiration of some myo- 

 logical and other casts, coloured and of the natural size, in the anatomical 

 galleries of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. I may cite : — three layers of the 

 ueck-muscles of the girafle ; intestines, caecum, Sec. of the same animal ; 

 a varied myological and visceral series of the hippopotamus (classic, as 

 being the original of Gratiolet's splendid monograph) ; the same of the 

 chimpanzee, sheep, horse, kangaroo, jaguar, besides many otlier vascular 

 and glandular peculiarities of the elephant, llama, ostrich, &c., — all testi- 

 mony to that vigorous zeal for anatomy so characteristic of the P'rench 

 school. 



