ELEPHANTS 



in favour of her recovery, and I should not for one moment 

 listen to the idea of, or consent to, her destruction. 



I was much gratified to find that the wound was 

 gradually healing up, and continued to do so until it was 

 perfectly sound, and the animal afterwards used her trunk 

 for all needful purposes nearly as well as the uninjured 

 beasts. 



DEAD ELEPHANTS. 



Having witnessed the manner in which Professer Owen 

 had failed to remove the brain caused me to determine, 

 should another opportunity occur, to try if I could succeed 

 in taking out in a perfect state the brain of an elephant. 

 The opportunity soon presented itself: a large elephant 

 having died at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, it was 

 offered to me for a very considerable sum of money. 

 I bought the animal upon the condition that no one 

 should be allowed to enter the house where my assist- 

 ants and I were at work. I was successful in removing 

 the brain in the best condition, and having deposited it 

 carefully in a large pan filled with spirits I opened the 

 door to a number of medical students and others who had 

 been very clamorous for admission. The first thing they 

 were most anxious to have was the brain for the Museum 

 of the Royal College of Lincoln's Inn Fields ; they also 

 eagerly seized upon the heart, kidneys, etc., in fact nearly 

 the whole of the viscera, which they carried off to the 

 College of Surgeons. I informed them at the time that I 

 had paid a large sum for the dead elephant, and whatever 

 they removed must be paid for. To this their answer was 

 " there would be no objection." 



I had some little difficulty with the Secretary of the 



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