592 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1/10. 



rest of the bones of the fore foot are spongy. The astragalus, os naviculare, 

 and ossa cuneiformia, are more solid ; but the talus and other bones of the 

 hind foot spongious. The spine was spongy, as is usual ; the ossa innominata 

 of a middle consistence ; and the scapula very thin, but solid towards its neck. 

 I cannot positively determine the cavities for the marrow, nor quantity of it ; 

 but by comparing the dimensions with the weight and small quantity of fat to 

 be seen at the boiling, we may suppose it not to have been much in this animal : 

 I know not how it may be in others of this species. 



I must not forget to tell you, that when I weighed the bones, it was imme- 

 diately before they were joined ; so that their weight was much diminished, in 

 respect of what it was when they were newly boiled. The weight is ^16 to 

 lib. and the measure, according to the English yard, 12 inches to a foot, and 

 12 lines to an inch. 



The Explanation of the Plates. 



Plate xiii. fig. 9> represents the stuffed skin of the Elephant, with an account of its particular 

 dimensions j a a the height of the elephant at the fore feet, was 8 ft. 6 inc. ; bb its height at the 

 hind feet 9 inc. ; cc its length 10 inc. ; CD the length of the tail 4 ft. 3 inc. ; ee the circumference 

 of the belly 14 ft. j ff from the top of the head to the point of the proboscis 8 ft. j gf the length 

 of the proboscis 4 ft. 6 inc. j hh the distance between the forehead and lower jaw 2ft. 3 inc. ; Fi 

 from the top of the head to the lower jaw 4 ft. 6 inc. j kk the length of the ear 1 ft. 7 inc. } ll its 

 breadth 1 ft, 5 inc. ; M the orifice of the meatus auditoriusj nn the circumference of the fore foot 

 round the hoofs 3 ft. 101- inc. ; a the fore hoof fore-shortened 3 inc. ; b the middle external hoof 

 5 inc. ; c the third external hoof A^. — Note, That neither the diameter of tlie fore foot from before 

 to behind, which was 1 ft, 4^ inches ; nor fi"om the right to the left, which was 1 ft. 2 inc. can be 

 so here ; oo the circumference of the fore foot at the upper joint 4 ft. 3 inc. ; pp at the articulation 

 with the carpus 2 ft. 6-1- inc. ; qq the circumference of the hind foot round the hoof 3 ft. 4 inc. j 

 a the breadth of the fore hoof 3 inc j b the breadth of the outer hoof 4 inc. ; c the breadth of the 

 third hoof 4 inc. ; rr the circumference of the hind leg 2 ft. 2 inc. ; s the mouth j t the tusks 

 broken off by the middle ; u the eye ; x represents the scabs about the belly; yy the depressions 

 in the skin through the folding of the proboscis ; a a protuberance first occasioned by the os.sa inno- 

 minata, when the animal was alive and very lean, and still remaining in the skin ; b a protuberance 

 in the fore part of tlie thigh j c tlie lower joint of the fore foot, where there is a depression in 

 the skin ; dd several wrinkles in the stuffed skin. 



Fig. 10, represents the skeleton of the elephant, as it was mounted by my direction, and now 

 stands in the repository of rarities in Dundee ; a the scull taken in profile, whereby a part of the fore- 

 side is foreshortened ; a the hole for tlie root of the trunk foreshortened j bb the two ossa palati ; 

 cc the 2 tusks as tliey proceed from the ossa palati ; dd the broken oft' extremities of the tusks ; e the 

 grinders of the upper jaw j f the fore grinder of the lower jaw ; g the undulating lines of the lower sur- 

 face of the grinders of the upper jaw ; h the inner grinder of the lower jaw ; i part of the o» malae; k its 

 articulation with the os zygomaticum ; 1 the os zygomaticum ; m the orbit of the eye ; n its upper pro- 

 tuberance 3 o its middle protuberance where the trochlea is inserted j p its lower protuberance j q a sinus 

 at the bottom of the orbit j rr a depression fit for lodging the muscles of the lower jaw and proboscis ; 



