e internal structure of this interesting animal.]

[Footnote 3: The passage as quoted by BUFFON from the _Memoires_ is as
follows:

--"L'estomac avoit peu de diametre; il en avoit moins que le colon, car
son diametre n'etoit que de quatorze pouces dans la partie la plus
large; il avoit trois pieds et demi de longueur: l'orifice superieur
etoit a-peu-pres aussi eloigne du pylore que du fond du grand cul-de-sac
qui se terminoit en une pointe composee de tuniques beaucoup plus
epaisses que celles du reste de l'estomac; il y avoit au fond du grand
cul-de-sac plusieurs feuillets epais d'une ligne, larges d'un pouce et
demi, et disposes irregulierement; le reste de parois interieures etoit
perce de plusieurs petits trous et par de plus grands qui
correspondoient a des grains glanduleux."--BUFFON, _Hist. Nat_., vol.
xi. p. 109.]

A writer in the _Quarterly Review_ for December 1850, says that "CAMPER
and other comparative anatomists have shown that the left, or cardiac
end of the stomach in the elephant is adapted, by several wide folds of
lining membrane, to serve as a receiver for water;" but this is scarcely
correct, for although CAMPER has accurately figured the external form of
the stomach, he disposes of the question of the interior functions with
the simple remark that its folds "semblent en faire une espece de
division particuliere."[1] In like manner SIR EVERARD HOME, in his
_Lectures on Comparative Anatomy_, has not only carefully described the
form of the elephant's stomach, and furnished a drawing of it even more
accurate than CAMPER; but he has equally omitted to assign any purpose
to so strange a formation, contenting himself with observing that the
structure is a peculiarity, and that one of the remarkable folds nearest
the orifice of the diaphragm appears to act as a valve, so that the
portion beyond may be considered as an appendage similar to that of the
hog and the _peccary_.[2]

[Footnote 1: "L'extremite voisine du cardia se termine par une poche
tres-considerable et doublee a l'interieure du quatorze valvules
orbiculaires que semblent en faire une espece de division
particuliere."--CAMPER, _Description Anatomique d'un Elephant Male_, p.
37, tabl. IX.]

[Footnote 2: "The elephant has another peculiarity in the internal
structure of the stomach. It is longer and narrower than that of most
animals. The cuticular membrane of the oesophagus terminates at the
orifice of the stomach. At the cardiac end, whi