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however, contained a large quantity (probably 40 or 50 lbs. 
in all) of fat. This was not deposited in solid hard masses, 
as in the carnivora, ruminantia, and other animals, but it was 
dispersed about the viscera, stomach, intestines, heart and 
mesentery, in thinnish layers, and a great deal of it, when the 
body was warm, was in a fluid state; but on cooling it 
assumed a tallowy condition, and evidently contained a large 
quantity of stearine. 
Another circumstance I may allude to, respecting the 
assertion of many writers, that the body of the elephant 
decomposes very rapidly ; but this, as I stated in my first 
paper, depends much upon the state of the atmosphere. The 
body of this animal was in a rapid state of decomposition ; 
but the viscera of the male, which were buried on Marsden 
Moor, and which I had exhumed after the animal had been 
dead about a week, were scarcely in the first stage of decom- 
position, but the weather was excessively cold. 
The kidneys of the female w r ere tabulated, those of the 
male not lobed. 
As stated in my first communication, I examined in the 
space of a fortnight the teeth of ten living elephants in this 
country, and this animal was among the number. I copy 
the description given in February, 1854 : — C( One molar on 
each side of the upper jaw, one on the left lower jaw, and 
two on the right side. The anterior one being narrow, of 
a dark colour, loose, and evidently on the point of being 
shed.’’ 
The keeper found this tooth some months after. At the 
time of death there were four molars ; the upper two having 
eleven plates each, the lower, twelve. No rudimentary teeth 
were perceptible externally, but small apertures existed for 
their advent. 
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By T. Jex, M.R.C.V.S., Y.S. 1st Life Guards. 
March 26th, 1856. — A bay gelding, seven years old, was 
observed, at 6 a.m., to be very uneasy, showing symptoms of 
colic. An anti-spasmodic draught had been given before I 
saw him, which was about 10 o’clock. At that time he 
appeared easy, was lying down, and remained quiet for some 
time ; but at 2 p.m., he again became restless. The pulse 
was regular, the respiration very little accelerated, and the 
