THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS 309 
spleen are negative. Kidney is large, greenish yellow, firm, smooth and 
glistening. The right uterine cornu is subinvoluted (the animal was 
delivered of a fetus before arrival at the Garden, which was sixteen 
days before death). Its walls are thick and distinctly congested, the 
congestion being of inflammatory type. Microscopic section of uterus 
shows a regular, not ulcerated serosa. Subjacent fibrous tissue is loose 
and contains a granular precipitate together with a few red blood cells. 
Muscular bundles under this are widely separated evidently partly by 
trauma, but certainly also by edematous interstitial tissue in which 
fibrillae are widely separated and between which free red blood cells 
and plasma cells are seen. Capillaries ramifying through muscular 
bundles are greatly distended and congested. Numerous large arteries 
are present in addition. Some of these contain pink granular material 
within their walls together with diffuse collection of red blood cells. 
Fibroblasts extend into this necrotic mass from other sections of the 
walls. Lumen of such arteries is diminished and in places quite obliter- 
ated by recent organization tissue. At many places in muscularis are 
large cells of irregular rounded form and some cytoplasms incline to- 
ward the basic tint Avith one or several large hyperchromatic nuclei. 
They are especially likely to occur close to a capillary. There is an es- 
pecially large accumulation of these cells at that point of section 
farthest from fundus. Here these cells occur in chord-like masses 
which infiltrate the muscularis both internally and externally. This 
particular mass lies in the muscularis internal to great arteries and 
well removed from mucosa. In this mass are giant cells with multiple 
nuclei scattered through the whole cytoplasm together with smaller 
cells Avith exceptionally large hyperchromatic nuclei. Subepithelial 
tissue is especially congested and contains numerous fibroblasts together 
with a few well formed glandular acini. Lining epithelium is discon- 
tinous, of simple tall columnar type, in places becoming flattened or 
even lost. Lumen of organ is practically completely occupied by pus. 
The Indian Elephant " Empress " (Elephas indiciis) showed calci- 
fied fibroids of the fimbriae; gross and microscopic notes and a photo- 
graph are given. The uterus is bicornate in type. In its body there are 
numerous fibrous nodules 1 to 4 cm. diameter. They can be traced from 
the cervix to the ends of both horns and tubes. At the end of each 
tube there is a great mass of calcified partly conglomerate tumors some 
of which are partly, others quite, pedunculated. One specimen measur- 
ing 2xlxli cm. has a peduncle 15 cm. long. The mass on the right side 
weighs 3,926 grams, that on the left side about the same. Section of 
tumor from uterine cornu shows the classical appearance of a leiomyoma 
with usual whorling and interlacing bundles of involuntary muscle 
fibres. Degenerative and vascular changes not seen nor is there any 
notable addition of fibrous tissue. This latter tissue is shown only in 
small amounts at one end of section. 
The preceding data record the discovery of three 
fibromata of the uterus and one of the fimbrias ; one fibro- 
