Zoological Society, 4^f 



length, 2 1 inches; its edges were very thin and slightly crenu- 

 lated. 



" The pancreas presented a thin, flat portion, attached to the 

 spleen, whence ran a broad slip attached to the peritoneal reflection 

 at the back of the stomach, and advancing round to the duodenum. 

 Its duct joined that of the gall-bladder I of an inch from its inser- 

 tion. 



" The stomach was divided by a contraction, into two distinct 

 portions ; of these, the cardiac was large and almost globular, its 

 breadth across being 2, its length across 2^ inches; Itsparietes were 

 much thinner than those of the pyloric portion, which, as we stated, 

 bent down abruptly, so as to form a narrow arch. The breadth of 

 the pylorus at its commencement, was little more than an inch, but 

 it swelled out into a sacculus, whence it narrowed to the pyloric 

 orifice. Following its greater curve it measured 2J inches, along 

 its smaller, only | of an inch. It was slightly puckered transversely 

 on the sides by a posterior longitudinal band of fibres. Anterior to 

 the entrance of the oesophagus, and occupying the space of the smaller 

 curvature of the stomach, between the oesophagus and the contraction, 

 was situated a large thick gland, opening by numerous ducts, whose 

 mouths clustered together, formed a sort of network. On each side 

 of this gland the inner membrane of the stomach was longitudinally 

 corrugated with small ruga, whence larger j9/fc«, and more distinct 

 from each other, were continued down the inner surface of the py- 

 lorus, to its orifice, which was closed with a strong sphincter-valve; 

 the cardiac pouch was lined with a thin smooth cuticular membrane. 

 The duodenum began pyriform with a small sacculus | of an inch in 

 breadth, whence it narrowed to ^ of an inch; this being its average 

 breadth. Its course was as follows: Leaving the joy/orw5, and bound 

 to the spine by mesentery, it advanced over the right kidney, then 

 crossed the spine, turned up on the left side under the cardiac portion 

 of the stomach, and merged into jejunum. The whole of the inner 

 membrane of the small intestines exhibited a beaiitiful velvety tissue. 

 " The caecum was of enormous magnitude, and slightly puckered 

 equidistantly or nearly so throughout its whole length into sacculi, 

 by a slight longitudinal (mesenteric) band of muscular fibres ; there 

 appeared also faint traces of an opposite band. Turning spirally 

 on itself and beginning large, it gradually narrowed, the decrease 

 of its last portion, for the length of 18 inches, being very marked ; 

 this portion running to a long vermiform point. The total length 

 of the caecum was 4 feet 2 inches. Basal breadth, 2 inches. The 

 colon, resembling in character the first portion of the caecum, was 

 slightly contracted into large sacculi, the first sacculus just below 

 the entrance of the ileum, being more decided and larger than those 

 which succeed ; it was, however, nothing more than a simple en- 

 largement, without any pyramid figure. After a course of 17 inches, 

 the colon decreased in size to the breadth of § of an inch ; the total 

 length of the large intestines was 6 feet 4 inches. The inner mem- 

 brane of the rectum was corrugated longitudinally. 



'* The lungs consisted of 3 right lobes, one lai-ge, and two small ;. 

 and of two left lobes, the lower bv far the largest. 



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