Mary Mulvihill did a five-minute talk about ‘The night Dublin dissected an elephant’. It (the night Dublin dissected an elephant — not Mulvihill’s talk!) was was a big, smelly moment in the history of science. Here’s video of her talk:
Allen Mullin did the dissection, way back when, in 1681. He described it in a book called An anatomical account of the elephant accidentally burnt in Dublin on Fryday, June 17 in the year 1681:
