Anatomy of the Indian elephant / by L.C. Miall and F. Greenwood.

  • Louis Compton Miall
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1878
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    present least perfectly known. When the time for comparison and inference shall have come, such facts will he found of use. For the convenience of future students, a list of the principal memoirs on the anatomy of the elephant is subjoined.1 Some of these require special mention. 1 Blair, Patrick.—The Anatomy and Osteology of an Elephant, being an exact Description of all the Bones of the Elephant which died near Dundee, April the 27th, 1706, with their several dimensions. Phil. Trans, vol. xxvii. p. 53, fig. (1710). On the Organ of Hearing in the Elephant. Phil. Trans, xxx. p. 885, fig. (1718). Camper, Pierre.—Description Anatomique d’un Elephant male. Publice par son fils, A. G. Camper. Paris, fol. fig. (1802). Kort berigt van de ontleding eens jongen elephants. Vaterlandsche letteroeffeningen (1774). Translated in Camper’s Kleiners Schriften, pt. i. p. 51, and CEuvres, tom. i. and ii. p. 152. Corse, John.—Observations on the Different Species of Asiatic Elephants and their Mode of Dentition. Phil. Trans, vol. lxxxix. pp. 205-236, fig. (1799). Cuvier, Georges.—Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles. Paris, 4th ed. tom. i. pp. 468-582, fig. (1834). Cuvier et Laurillard.—Recueil de Planches de Myologie, tom. iii. Daubenton.—In Buffon’s Histoire Naturclle, vol. xi. Paris, 4to (1764). Goodsir, John.—Notes on the Myology of the Elephant. Appendix to Anatomical Memoirs, vol. i. p. 446. Edinburgh, 8vo (1868). Harrison, Robert.—On the Anatomy of the Elephant. Proc. Irish Acad. vol. iii. pp. 385-398 (1847). On the Larynx, Trachea, and (Esophagus of the Elephant. Ib. vol. iv. pp. 132-135 (1850). On the Anatomy of the Lachrymal Apparatus of the Elephant, lb. vol. iv. pp. 158-165 (1850). Home, Everard.—Some Observations on the Structure of the Teeth of Graminivorous Quadrupeds, particularly those of the Elephant and Sus yEthiopicus. Phil. Trans, vol. lxxxix. pp. 237-258, fig. (1799). IIouel, J. P. L. L.—Histoire Naturelle des deux Elephans, male et femelle, du Museum de Paris. Paris, 4to, fig. (1803). [External parts only. These were the animals afterwards dissected by Cuvier.] Hunter, John.—Essays and Observations, edited by Prof. Owen, vol. ii. pp. 170-176, London, 8vo (1861). Leuret et Gratiolet.—Anatomie comparee du systeme nerveux. Paris, fol. fig. (1839-1857). [Brain.] Mayer, C.—Beitrage zur Anatomie des Elephanten und der iibrigen Pachy- dermen.—Ale ad. Coes. Leop. vol. xxii. 4to, fig. (1847). Moulins, Allen.—Anatomical Account of an Elephant, accidentally burnt in Dublin, 4to, 72 pp. 2 pi. (1682). Owen, Richard.—Description of the Foetal Membranes and Placenta of the Elephant (Eleplias Indians, Cuv.), with remarks on the value of placentary characters in the classification of the mammalia. Phil. Trans, cxlvii. pp. 347-353, pi. xvi. (1857).
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