ELEPHAS INDICUS, 175 



lbs. oz. 



The brain weighed 7 7 



A woman's, which was stale, weighed ..22 



A man's brain 2 12 



Organs of Generation 1 . — The external opening of the vagina is be- 

 tween the two hind-legs, jnst where the udder is placed in the female 

 of other animals, or where the testicles are in the male. 



The clitoris 2 is very prominent, appearing externally of a dark colour : 

 the labia are continued round it, making a kind of hood or prepuce. 

 On that side of the clitoris which leads to the vagina, it appears as if 

 the urethra had been continued to the end, but was slit up. It passes 

 up towards the anus along the posterior part of the abdomen, or what 

 would be called the perinseum, similar to the penis in many male 

 animals, and has its two crura attached to the pubis : it is cavernous 

 near to the end where it is covered by the glans, which is spongy, 

 similar to the glans penis in man. There are two muscles, arising in 

 common with the erectores clitoridis, which pass along with the crura, 

 getting upon the upper part of the clitoris, and unite into one ; which, 

 running along the clitoris in a sheath, is inserted into the upper surface 

 of the glans. The nerves going to the glans are very large. 



The vagina passes along the under surface of the clitoris to the 

 opening of the pelvis, and then bends in towards the cavity of the ab- 

 domen or pelvis, where it forms its different parts ; the construction of 

 some of which are very different from many, if not all, other animals. 

 The whole cavity may be divided into four, viz. : — 



1. The common vagina, which is common to the urine and penis. 



2. The proper, or rather uncommon, vagina, where the penis can- 



not enter. 



3. The common uterus. 



4. The two horns. 



•In this animal the common vagina is the whole length where the 

 penis goes ; so that there is no proper vagina for the penis, as in most 

 other animals ; for at the termination of the proper vagina its cavity 

 contracts at once, almost into a blind end ; in the centre of which there 

 are three small openings, neither of them larger than a crow-quill : the 

 two lateral of these lead to two small sacs [canals of Malpighi] which 

 pass a little way along the sides of the common vagina. The urethra 



1 [Those in the male are shown in Hunt. Preps. Nos. 2528 — 2531. In the French 

 translation of Camper's works, the following passage occurs in his ' Description 

 Anatomique d'un elephant:' — "Lecelebre Hunter de Londrea doit avoir disseque 

 deux elephants en 1775, une annee apres l'auteur."] 



2 [Hunt. Prep. No. 2777.] 



