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ANATOMY OF VERTEBRATES. 



experimental research on the action of the bile in the intestine 

 before its admixture with the pancreatic secretion. Most Tnsec- 

 tivora also show the flattened branched form of the pancreas in 

 the broad membranes suspending contiguous organs : it is shown 

 in a large snouted Shrew, in fig. 323, p. In the Hedgehog one of 



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Pancreas of the Rat (natural size), shown by throwing up the duodenum and duodenal mesentery, ccxxxi. 



the duodenal branches hangs freely from the mesentery with an 

 entire investment of peritoneum. 1 



In the Sloth the left end of the splenic portion of the pancreas 

 has an entire serous coat, and is somewhat loosely suspended 

 from the back of the epiploon : the duodenal portion is narrower. 

 In Myrmecophaga the transverse or splenic portion is long and 



1 CXLVII". p. 236, No. 780 A. 





