The wild elephant and the method of capturing and taming it in Ceylon . ardiac end, which is very pondoicnt a des grains narrow and pointed at the extremity, (BuFFON, Hist. Nat. vol. xi. p. 109.) the lining is thick and glandular, and is Lextremite voisine du cardiaque thrown into transverse folds, of which se termine par une poche tres-conside- five are broad and nine narrow. That rableetdoubleeaTinterieuredequatorze nearest the orifice of the oesophagus is valvules orbiculaires qui semblent en the broadest, and appears to act occa- faire une espece de division particuliere. sion
The wild elephant and the method of capturing and taming it in Ceylon . ardiac end, which is very pondoicnt a des grains narrow and pointed at the extremity, (BuFFON, Hist. Nat. vol. xi. p. 109.) the lining is thick and glandular, and is Lextremite voisine du cardiaque thrown into transverse folds, of which se termine par une poche tres-conside- five are broad and nine narrow. That rableetdoubleeaTinterieuredequatorze nearest the orifice of the oesophagus is valvules orbiculaires qui semblent en the broadest, and appears to act occa- faire une espece de division particuliere. sionally as a valve, so that the part Sir Evcrard Home. 59 The appendage thus alhided to by Sir Everard Homeis the grand cul-de-sac, noticed by the Academie desSciences, and the division particuhere, figured byCamper. It is of sufficient dimensions to contain tengallons of water, and by means of the valve abovealluded to, it can be shut off from the chamber devotedto the process of digestion. Professor Owen is probablythe first who, not from an autopsy, but from the mere. ELEPHANT S STOMACH. inspection of the drawings of Camper and Ho:me,ventured to assert (in lectures hitherto unpublished),that the uses of this section of the elephants stomachmay be analogous to those ascertained to belong to asomewhat similar arrangement in the stomach of thecamel, one cavity of which is exclusively employed as a beyond may be considered as an ap- vascular. [Lectures on Comparative pendage similar to that of the peccary Anatojiiy, by Sir Everard Home, and the hog. The membrane of the Bart. 410. Lond. vol. i. p. 155. The cardiac portion is uniformly smooth ; figure of the elephants stomach is given that of the pyloric is thicker and more in his Lectures, vol. ii. plate 6o The IVild Elephant. reservoir for water, and performs no function in the pre-paration of food. ^ Whilst Professor Owen was advancing this conjecture,another comparative anatomist, from the examination ofanother portion of
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