a Male and a Female Dromedary. 3 



or bladder, which seems to be inflated. It may be protruded 

 forward by the air forced upon it from behind, or it may 

 perhaps be susceptible of a sort of erection, but it cannot be 

 properly inflated, as it contains no cavity. Prof. S. considers 

 this organ as the uvula, and labors strenuously to main- 

 tain the point ; but he seems to have been led to this 

 view of the subject from having fallen into the great error 

 of supposing that the uvula is found in all the other mam- 

 malia as well as in man. Cuvier (Anat. Comp. III. 283,) 

 and Mr. Lawrence, in a note to his edition of Blumenbach, 

 state that it is found only in man and in the simise ; there 

 certainly was no appearance of it in the present case, and 

 the peculiar organ in question, as already stated, did not 

 reach within three and a half inches of the posterior edge of 

 the soft palate. 



In the male, the palatine organ was rather larger, but 

 otherwise the same as in the female ; the arrangement and 

 development of the glands were also the same, with the same 

 appearance as of hairs projecting from the orifices of some 

 of the ducts. As to the size of the palatine organ, Prof S. 

 makes it about four times as long as it was in the present 

 individuals, though these had died in the month of March, 

 which is just the rutting season, the time when the organ is 

 more frequently protruded, seems to be more excited, and 

 would be at least as much developed as at any other time. 



The Stomach of the Female consisted of three cavities. 

 The first, or the paunch, was of a rounded form, about two 

 or two and a half feet in diameter, and nearly filled with 

 food, which was unchanged and for the most part dryish, 

 though in the depending parts there was a little water. 

 The inner surface was formed by a white, thin, dense, 

 wrinkled cutis, without papillae, and lined by a delicate cu- 

 ticle. The muscular coat was strongly developed, the fibres 

 generally extending from the cardiac orifice to the opposite 

 extremity of the organ, so as to force up the contents towards 

 the oesophagus in the process of rumination, the cud being 

 evidently returned into the mouth from this cavity, and not 

 from the second, as in the bullock ; there was also a thin 



