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part in the abdomen was loaded with fat. The stomach resembled 

 the human in shape, and had a well marked contraction between 

 the cardiac and pyloric portions ; the muscular parietes of the 

 latter were half an inch thick j and, as in the Bears generally, 

 had a tendinous appearance externally on each side. The intes- 

 tines were simply villous internally. The biliary and pancreatic 

 secretions entered at a distance of four inches from the pylorus. 

 There were four or five longitudinal ruga in the terminal six feet 

 of the intestinal canal ; and the diameter was smallest at this part. 

 There was no ccccum, nor any valvular apparatus in any part of the 

 intestinal canal. 



" The anal follicles were two in number of the size of hazel-nuts. 

 One of them was filled tensely with a yellowish-brown cheesy sub- 

 stance, which had a strong acetous odour; the contents of the other 

 were of more fluid consistence, but had the same odour ; the excre- 

 tory orifice was just capable of admitting a common probe ; the 

 lining membrane was thin, of a white colour, but not so distinctly cu- 

 ticular as is commonly found 5 it resembled more the lining mem- 

 brane of the urinary bladder. Each follicle was surrounded by the 

 fibres of a muscle which was inserted into the crus penis. 



"The spleen was of a trihedral shape, 7 inches in length, \\ in 

 breadth, of a light mottled pink colour and granular texture ; the 

 splenic vein contributed to form the vena porta in the usual manner. 

 The pancreas was of about the same size as the spleen 5 but the py- 

 loric portion bent at right angles with that which passed behind the 

 stomach. 



" The kidneys consisted each of about thirty lobules. The ureters 

 terminated separately but close together at the neck of the bladder. 

 The urinary bladder was a narrow oblong bag, and about half an 

 inch of the urachus still remained permeable from the fundus vesica, 



" The tongue was long, broad, and thin at the extremity, with the 

 edges turned down. On the upper part was a longitudinal mesial 

 groove extending four inches from the tip. The surface was uni- 

 versally papillose, and with the simple papilla were intermixed 

 numerous small white petiolate papilla. At a distance of five inches 

 from the tip there were eleven large f ossulate papilla, forming two 

 sides of a triangle whose apex is towards the epiglottis. Nearer to 

 the epiglottis were numerous cuticular pointed processes directed 

 backwards. The lytta, or worm of the tongue, was 5 inches in 

 length, about the thickness of a crow quill, and bent upon itself 

 near its middle part : it had fibres of the linguales muscles inserted 

 into its anterior extremity, but laid loosely for the rest of its extent 

 among the cellular texture in the interval of the linguales and 

 genio-glossi. The velum palati was terminated at its lower margin 

 by a short bifid uvula, the azygos uvula consisting here of two quite 

 distinct muscles." 



A pair of the middle tail-feathers of the Phasianus Reevesii, 

 Hardw. and Gray, (Phas. veneratus, Temm.) were exhibited; for 

 one of which the Society is indebted to the liberality of John Reeves, 



