HARVARD COLLEGE
May 3.1929

The structure of the Elephant, exhibited in connexion with

its natural habits

CHAPTER III.

The structure of the Elephant, exhibited in connexion with

its natural habits ;-continued

CHAPTER IV.

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The Indian Elephant. Fertility in a state of confinement.

-Growth.-Modes of taking wild Elephants in Asia. 87

CHAPTER V.

The African Elephant.-Elephant hunts.

CHAPTER VI.

Domestic employment of Elephants in the East.-Training.

CHAPTER VII.

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Employment of Elephants in the East.-Travelling Sports. 164

CHAPTER VIII.

Employment of Elephants in the East, continued.-Exhibi-

tions of Cruelty.-Processions and Ceremonials .

CHAPTER IX.

Employment of Elephants in the wars of Modern Asia

CHAPTER X.

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Employment of Elephants in war by Alexander the Great,

Employment of Elephants in war and in triumphs by the

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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21 Elephants drinking.

1 The Indian elephant, Elephas Indicus, CUVIER

2 Scene exhibited at the Adelphi Theatre

3 Female elephant at Mr. Cross's Menagerie.

4 Head of a female elephant in Atkins's Menagerie

5 Elephant of the Jardin des Plantes

6 Young elephants browsing.

7 Elephant lying down.

8 Skeleton of the elephant shot at Exeter Change

9 Skeleton of the horse.

10 Section of the skull of the elephant

11 Sections of the trunk of the elephant

12 to 18 Extremity of the proboscis of the elephant, exemplifying the

manner in which it grasps different objects

19 An elephant pulling down the branch of a tree

20 Front view of an elephant's head, with the trunk turned, shewing

the construction of the mouth.

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22 Elephant swimming

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23 Medal of Tranquillina, wife of Gordian

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25 Skull of the Indian elephant

24 Surfaces of the cheek teeth of the Indian and African elephant

28 Wild elephant captured by means of decoy female elephants

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29 Wild elephant left after having been bound.

30 Elephant harnessed in a keddah. From an original drawing by

Mr. Corse Scott, engraved in Brewster's Encyclopædia

31 African elephant. Elephas Africanus, CUVIER

32 Enraged elephant destroying his driver

33 Warren Hastings' elephant

34 Method of descending from an elephant by a rope

35 Hunters in a howdah

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58 Medal of Julius Cæsar

42 White elephant of Ava

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43 Ancient medal-head of Socrates united with that of an elephant 210

44 Elephant worshipping the Sun and Moon from a Chinese sacred

picture..

45 Neapolitan medal-Elephant before the tripod of Apollo

46 Coin of Cardinal Zabarella, religion of the elephant

48 Elephants conveying artillery through bad roads

49 Kublai Khan in his wooden castle

50 Ancient Medal of a triumphant entry of Alexander the Great

51 Triumph of Alexander, from Seb. le Clerc

52 Medal of Alexander wearing the head-skin of an elephant

53 Medal, supposed to be a head of Ptolemy Philadelphus

54 Coin of Antiochus

55 Triumphal elephants

56 Roman medallion of Africa

57 Triumph of Scipio

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Augustus

70 Interior view of ditto

59 Medal in honour of Julius Cæsar, struck by Trajan

60 Medal representing the triumphal arch voted by the Senate to

61 Medal of the funereal honours paid to Augustus.

62 Statue of Romulus drawn by elephants, from a bas-relief described

68 Medal of the funereal honours paid to Augustus by Tiberius.

69 Exterior view of the Colosseum of Vespasian

71 Medal of Severus

72 Medal of the funereal honours paid to Pertinax by Severus.

73 Ruins of the Parthenon

75 to 77 Method of constructing the ancient statues of ivory

78 Female elephant and its young one, from Pompeii

81 Skull of the fossil elephant. Elephas Primigenius, BLUMENBACH. 372