6 STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. 



present least perfectly known. When the time for comparison 

 and inference shall have come, such facts will be found of use. 



For the convenience of future students, a list of the principal 

 memoirs on the anatomy of the elephant is subjoined.^ Some of these 

 require special mention, 



^Blaie, Patrick. — The Anatomy and Osteology of an Elephant, being an exact 

 Description of all the Bones of the Elephant which died near Dundee, April 

 the 27th, 1706, with their several dimensions. Phil. Trans, vol. xxvii. 

 p. 53, fig. (1710). 



On the Organ of Hearing in the Elephant. Phil. Trans, xxx. p. 885, 



fig. (1718). 



Camper, Pierre. — Description Anatomique d'un Elephant male. Publiee par son 

 fils, A. G. Camper. Paris, fol. fig. (1802). 



Kort herigt van de ontleding eens jongen elephants. Vaterlandsche 



letteroeffeningen (1774). Translated in Camper's Kleinere Schriften, pt. 

 i. p. 51, and QSuvres, torn. i. and ii. p. 152. 



Corse, John. — Observations on the Difl'erent Species of Asiatic Elephants and 



their Modeof Dentition. Phil. Trans, vol. Ixxxix, pp. 205-236, fig. (1799). 

 CuviER, Georges. — Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles. Paris, 4th ed. torn. i. 



pp. 468-582, fig. (1834). 

 CuviER ET Laurillard. — Recueil de Planches de Myologie, tom. iii. 

 Daubenton. — In Bufl'on's Histoirc Naturellc, vol. xi. Paris, 4to (1764). 

 GooDsiR, John. — Notes on the Myology of the Elephant. Appendix to 



Anatomical Memoirs, vol. i. p. 446. Edinburgh, 8vo (1868). 

 Harrison, Robert. — On the Anatomy of the Elephant. Proc. Irish Acad. vol. 



iii. pp. 385-398 (1847). 



On the Larynx, Trachea, and (Esophagus of the Elephant. lb. vol. iv. 



pp. 132-135 (1850). 



On the Anatomy of the Lachrymal Apparatus of the Elephant. lb. vol. 



iv. pp. 158-165 (1850). 



Home, Everard. — Some Observations on the Structure of the Teeth of 



Graminivorous Quadrupeds, particularly those of the Elephant and Sus 



jEthiopicus. Phil. Trans, vol. Ixxxix. pp. 237-258, fig. (1799). 

 Hotjel, J. P. L. L. — Histoire Naturelle des deux l&lephans, male et femelle, du 



Museum de Paris. Paris, 4to, fig. (1803). 



[External parts only. These were the animals afterwards dissected by 



Cavier.] 

 Hunter, John. — Essays and Observations, edited by Prof. Owen, vol. ii. pp. 



170-176, London, 8vo (1861). 

 Lexjret et Gratiolet. — Anatomie comparee du systeme nerveux. Paris, fol. 



fig. (1839-1857). [Brain.] 

 Mater, C. — Beitrage zur Anatomie des Elephanten und der iibrigen Pachy- 



dermen. — ATcad. Cces. Leop. vol. xxii. 4to, fig. (1847). 

 Motjlins, Allen. — Anatomical Account of an Elephant, accidentally burnt in 



Dublin, 4to, 72 pp. 2 pi. (1682). 

 Owen, Richard. — Description of the Fcetal Membranes and Placenta of the 



Elephant {PJlejihas Indicus, Cuv.), with remarks on the value of placentary 



characters in the classification of the mammalia. Phil. Trans, cxlvii. pp. 



347-353, pi. xvi. (1857). 



