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Organs of generation in the male. The free and pen- 

 dulous portion of the penis was two inches in length, the 

 prepuce being capable of retraction as far as within an half 

 inch of the pubes. Properly speaking there is no corona 

 glandis, but the glans itself measures one and half inches in 

 length, of an elongated conical shape, and is perforated in its 

 axis by the urethra, the meatus externus of which is trans- 

 verse instead of being vertical, as in man.* No appearance 

 whatever of a frenum. Length of the whole organ from 

 union of the crura to the tip of the glans six inches. Mem- 

 branous portion of urethra one and half inch long and sur- 

 rounded by an erectile tissue ; bulb very distinct. Erectores 

 penis much more powerful than in man ; ejaculatores seminis still 

 more remarkable, measuring three and a half inches in length, 

 covering the membranous portion and the bulb of the urethra. 

 The prostate has the same relation to the neck of the bladder 

 as in man, except that it does not as in him encircle the ure- 

 thra, but grows thinner as it extends up on the sides. In 

 its general form it may be called funnel-shaped, having its 

 larger portion directed backwards, and is perforated longitudi- 

 nally for the passage of the excretory ducts of the testes. 



VesiculcB seminahs. In comparison with man these acquire 

 an enormous size, each of them measuring four and half inches 

 in length, and one inch in the widest part — they converge 

 and meet on the median line, and at the point of union are 

 enveloped by the prostate gland. The scrotum which Tyson 

 has very well described, " was not pendulous as in man, but 

 more contracted, and pursed up by the outward skin, nearer 

 to the OS pubis, and seated by the sides of the penis," the tes- 

 ticles " being contracted up nearer to the body of the penis ; 

 which seems to be a wise contrivance of nature ; for hereby 

 these parts are less exposed to the injuries they might other- 

 wise receive in climbing trees, or other accidents in the woods." 



Female organs. The general appearance of the vulva cor- 



* Tyson, in his description Op. cit. p. 45, says, the penis " had no frenum so that 

 the prepuce could be retracted wholly down, and herein our pygmie is different from 

 a man. The slit of the penis here was perpendicular as in man." 



