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obtained from the count Gazola, that offered 

 him by the city of Yerona , and that of Corsican 

 rocks received from M. Barral 7 an officer of the 

 island ; which fill one of the largest room of 

 the cabinet. 



The anatomical preparations were continued 

 with such activity, that in i8o5 one hundred and 

 one quadrupeds, five hundred birds, and as many 

 reptiles and fishes were placed in the cabinet. 

 The male elephant from Holland having died 

 the preceding year, M. Cuvier undertook its dis- 

 section, assisted by his pupils in zoology and ana- 

 tomy, and by the painter Marechal. His researches 

 however were still imperfect, and many parts 

 required further examination; for which an op- 

 portunity was afforded eighteen months after by 

 the death of another elephant, bought to replace 

 the first. On this occasion he examined and deli- 

 neated all the organs not perfectly ascertained ; 

 and some years after, the female dying also, he 

 confirmed his former observations and compared 

 the sexes. The anatomy of the elephant, of 

 which we had only the skeleton before, is now 

 as well known as that of the horse j a fresh proof 

 of the utility of a menagerie for the progress of 

 natural history. 



The inconveniences experienced in the dissec- 

 tion of the elephant at the hottest season of the 



