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stomach, differs materially from that of any monkey, the anatomy 

 of which has hitherto been the subject of investigation. This 

 organ is at least three times as large as that of any other CercO" 

 •pithecus of equal size ; and, instead of being as usual round, it is 

 divided into two portions, the left of which forms a very con- 

 siderable cavity, while the right is long, narrow, and twisted on 

 itself to such a degree that the entire length of the stomach, 

 measured along its greater curvature, is two feet and an inch. 

 But the most remarkable circumstance connected with it is the 

 existence of two flat strong muscular bands, running its whole 

 -length, the one along its greater, and the other along its lesser 

 curvature, similar to those which traverse the colon, and forming 

 in it, as in th^ latter intestine, an uninterrupted series of large 

 cells, which occupy the large cavity to the left, as well as the 

 narrow tubular portion to the right. It is impossible, in the pre- 

 sent brief analysis, to notice this interesting fact more in detail, 

 neither could we pass over the subject without directing the 

 attention of the Comparative Anatomist to so striking a peculiarity. 

 The paper is accompanied by an elegant figure of the animal, 

 and by representations of its skull and of its stomach. 



The next paper, by the same scientific Naturalist, " Uber eine 

 Neue Antilopenart, die Antilope suiurosa^^^ contains the descrip- 

 tion of a new species of Gazelle, belonging to the division with 

 annulated horns twice inflected and with the points directed back- 

 wards, to which Professor Lichtenstein, in his arrangement of this 

 elegant and interesting tribe, has given the designation of Buba^ 

 lilies. The specific character of the A, suturosa^ as given by Dr. 

 Otto, is as follows : ^' Body elongated, heavy, low; tail long 

 floccous ; horns long, large, annulate, twice inflected, apices re- 

 clined ; hairs unequal ; forming here and there unusually large 

 and frequent sutures, body brownish-cinereous ; abdomen, nates, 

 tail and feet white ; a round brown spot on the forehead ; and 

 three remarkable white spots on each side of the head." This 

 animal, like the former, was procured from a Menagerie, th« 

 proprietor of which stated that it was brought from Syria. 



The " Adversaria ad dentitionem Equini generis et Ovis do- 

 mesticae spectantia,'* by Dr. L. Bojan, are directed to the removal 



