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 
