64 DR. E. CRISP ON THE ANATOMY OF THE GIRAFFE. [Feb. 9, 
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oz. | lbs. oz.|bs.| Ibs. 0z.| lbs. oz.) 0z. | lbs. oz.| grs.|grs.|  grs, | ft. in 
Old female : 
weight of = 
body about 5 0/10; 120,)112;5 | 112 254 
16 cwt. 
Young male: 
weight of 
body about THO Sedo ola oatc2 tere I OL) Seales was 209 O 
16 cwt. 
Young, | OZ. grs. 400 
two months: }/133} 1 0 | 22) 30} 010 | 23 | 6 54 | 67 |350); lens }|107 11 
body 3 ewt. | | 35 
The most interesting feature in the above table, perhaps, is the 
great length of the alimentary canal; but it will be fully shown, in 
the table that I have appended to this paper, that the digestive tube 
of the Giraffe, when the size of the animal is taken into account, is 
of less extent than that of many of the smaller ruminants. 
As regards the length of the intestinal tube, the differences between 
my measurements and those of Professor Owen are so great that they 
could only arise from the difference in the age of the animal. In Prof. 
Owen’s three specimens (all adults) the canal measured 124, 133, 
and 136 feet (Transactions, vol. ii. p. 227); whilst in my specimens 
the length of the tube was 254, 209, and, in the immature specimen, 
107 feet 11 inches. In the ‘Mémoires du Muséum @ Histoire Na- 
turelle de Strasbourg,’ 1840 to 1846, MM. Joly et Lavocat have given 
a long and elaborate description of the dissection of a young Giraffe, 
and they allude frequently to Professor Owen’s paper on this sub- 
ject. These gentlemen, in remarking on the alimentary canal, say, 
“‘Ce que nous a surtout frappé en étudiant l’appareil digestif, c’est 
la longueur réellement extraordinaire du canal qui forme la partie 
principale de cet appareil.” And they quote from Cuvier and Du- 
vernoy the length of the canal of the Camel 42™°213, Ox 48™-869, 
Stag 21":538, Horse 25":189 ; and go on to say that the total length 
of the alimentary canal of the Giraffe examined by them was 
65 metres 25 millimetres (about equal to 211 English feet, and 2 feet 
longer than that of my young male), and, to quote their own words, 
“‘C’est A dire des dimensions relatives bien plus considérables que 
celles qu’ ont offertes sous ce rapport tous les mammiféres dont on a 
étudié organisation, le Mouton excepté.” 
As I have stated above, many animals have relatively a longer ali- 
mentary tube than the Giraffe. 
In the examinations by Professor Owen, only the brain and liver 
appear to have been weighed. ‘The brain in his specimen weighed 
14 ozs. ; that of the young male dissected by me, 15 ozs. ; and it will 
be seen that the brain of the young specimen was nearly equal in 
