54 THE CAMEL. 



pear that this fact has been established to the 

 satisfaction of the physiological chemist.^ 



It is not easy to explain the structure of the 

 stomach without drawings, but the following 

 clear and detailed account of the anatomy of 

 that organ in the Arabian camel, from a paper 

 by Dr. Jackson, in the fourth volume of the Bos- 

 ton Journal of Natural History, will prove intel- 

 ligible to all, and especially interesting to physi- 

 ological inquirers. Dr. Jackson dissected both 

 the male and female of this species, and noticed 

 some remarkable deviations from the structure 

 of the stomach of the Bactiian, as represented 

 by Sir Everard Home. I give Sir E. Home's 

 somewhat confused description in an appendix 

 to this volume, for the purpose of comparison. 



" 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 papil- 

 lae, and lined by a delicate cuticle. 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 con- 



^ Carbuccia, p. 16. 



