a Male and a Female Dromedary. 7 



faint remains of cells wich passed imperceptibly into the 

 plicae ; Sir E. Home remarks upon " a faint appearance of 

 a honey-combed structure, so slight as to require a close in- 

 spection to ascertain it." In the last six inches of the py- 

 loric portion, the structure of the lining membrane was en- 

 tirely changed. The greater part had the soft villous ap- 

 pearance of a mucous coat, but was much thickened. The 

 remainder, situated in the large curvature and to the extent 

 of about six inches square, was about one line in thick- 

 ness, and very peculiar in structure, consisting of fine, up- 

 right, parallel fibres, easily separated from each other and from 

 the subjacent parts ; the surface was smoother than that of 

 the surrounding mucous coat, though thrown into very 

 thick and strongly marked rugae. Just at the pylorus was 

 the glandular body, as it is described in the camel and 

 bullock by Home ; it was about one inch broad and about 

 one half an inch thick, from which place it extended back- 

 wards along the small curvature, and was gradually lost in 

 the parietes ; it was covered by mucous membrane and con- 

 sisted of a soft, w^iite tissue, without any glandular ap- 

 pearance. The pylorus was well marked, though not very 

 prominent. The muscular coat of this cavity was quite 

 thick, especially at the rugous part, the fibres being trans- 

 verse. 



The Stomach of the Male corresponded mainly with the 

 above description. In the first cavity, the cells on the left 

 side extended fourteen inches ; there were ten transverse 

 septa, four and a half to nine inches long, three-fourths of an 

 inch to two inches apart, and intersected, though not regu- 

 larly, by short septa ; three or four of the cells would pro- 

 bably have held eight or ten ounces. The cells on the 

 right side commenced about opposite the middle of the 

 large muscular band and were thirtynine inches in extent ; 

 thirteen transverse septa ; cells midway about three inches 

 wide and very shallow, but at each extremity much smaller. 

 The muscular band was twenty two inches long, and mid- 

 way one half inch thick. Small curvature of the second 

 cavity eight and one half inches, and the large ten and one 



