Reason of death lymphatic gland enlargement at base of heart, Female, London
Rhinoceros unicornis - died in London Zoo in 1873, female. The remarkable difference between the arrangement of the mucous membrane of the small intestine in the Indian and Sumatran rhinos (that of the former being produced into villi nearly an inch long through its whole length, whilst in the latter these were represented by valvulae conniventes) was also illustrated from specimens in spirit.
Rhinoceros unicornis - died in London Zoo in 1873, female. He mentiond that there was a minute os cordis at the attached margin of one of the aortic valves, and that in the Perissodactyla this bone is not always absent, as by some supposed, he having found a large one in the Sumatran tapir.
Death of female on 14 Dec 1873, lived in gardens for 23 years.
