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of the relations and lobes of the pancreas. The pancreas in 

 Aniblystoma resembles that in those forms which he described 

 in having a ventral part or lobe caudal to the liver and in inti- 

 mate relation with it, and a dorsal or caudal part. Kingsbury 

 described five more or less distinct parts. The following table 

 shows a correlation of the lobes of the pancreas which various 

 investigators have described with those of Amblystoma. 



TABLE 5 

 Table of the -parts of the adult pancreas in Amphibia 



Goeppert mentioned that there were usually several other pro- 

 longations of pancreatic tissue. This is also true for Atnbly- 

 stoma, particularly from the anterior end of the dorsal portion 

 were there several prolongations. It is to be remembered that 

 Vordere' is used by Oppel and Goeppert to express proximity 

 to the oral end of the intestinal loop and not in the ordinary 

 topographical sense. 



IV. GENERAL SUMMARY 



1. The liver begins as a median ventral projection of the 

 lumen of the gut, then as an anterior outpouching from this 

 lumen. 



