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The Capelli elements belong to the centre of the universal enveloping algebra of the Lie algebra \({\mathfrak g}{\mathfrak l}_n\) and are defined as sums of determinants of the generators of \({\mathfrak g}{\mathfrak l}_n\). Similar central elements are constructed in [\textit{R. Howe} and \textit{T. Umeda}, Math. Ann. 290, 565-619 (1991; Zbl 0733.20019)] in the universal enveloping algebra \(U({\mathfrak o}_n)\) of the orthogonal Lie algebra \({\mathfrak o}_n\). The main purpose of the paper under review is to study in detail these central elements. The author establishes identities of Newton and Cayley-Hamilton types and calculates the images of the elements under the Harish-Chandra homomorphism. As a consequence, it turns out that they are identical with the central elements expressed in terms of the Sklyanin determinant in [\textit{A. Molev}, J. Math. Phys. 36, 923-943 (1995; Zbl 0861.17009)]. The results of the paper show that the elements in consideration enjoy many properties of the Capelli elements in \(U({\mathfrak g}{\mathfrak l}_n)\) and are similar to them not only in their definition. The main steps of the proofs are based on ideas of \textit{T. Umeda} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 126, 3169-3175 (1998; Zbl 0913.17006)] for the \({\mathfrak g}{\mathfrak l}_n\)-case. The author constructs a ``cofactor matrix'' described with the Pfaffian by progressing the exterior calculus in \textit{M. Itoh} and \textit{T. Umeda} [Compos. Math. 127, 333-359 (2001; Zbl 1007.17007)].