STRUCTURE OF GLANDS. 



ing canals, the 

 KIDKEYS de- 

 serve particu- 

 lar notice. The 

 development 



Fig. 260. A 

 still smallerpiece 

 of the same kid- 

 ney magnified 

 about sixty di- 

 ameters, and 

 drawn in part as 

 a plan, so that 

 the relations of 

 the tubuli to one 

 another and to 

 the vascular glo- 

 meruli may be 

 distinctly seen 

 and understood. 

 a, a simple ter- 

 minal tubulus 

 uriniferus ; b, b t 

 tubuli, forming 

 loops and return- 

 ing ; c, c, tubuli 

 terminatinginbi- 

 furcated points ; 

 di e, fi points 

 where the tubuli 

 join, continuing 

 their course to- 

 wards the papil- 

 la 5 ff, ff, 9, arte- 

 rial glomerules 

 or convolutions, 

 connected with 

 one another by a 

 general vascular 

 rete ; h, a larger 

 arterial trunk, 

 which feeds this 

 rete and the con- 

 nected glomeru- 

 li (the Malpighi- 

 a bodies). 



