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** The liver was composed of three principai divisions, of H'hich 

 the left had a small appendix at its under surface. The middle or 

 cystic division was deeply cleft into three lobes, the round liga- 

 ment passing into the left notch, and the gall-bladder faeing lodged 

 in the right, with its pundus oa a level \vith the upper convex sur- 

 face of the gland. The right division of the liver \vas also cleft into 

 three lobes, which were again further subdivided by shallower fis- 

 sures, the smallest lobe occupying the usual place of the lohulus 

 Spigelii, viz, the lesser curvature of the stomach. 



" The gall-bladder had an entire investment of peritoneum, and 

 two of the primordial cceca had been dilated and retained in their 

 original simple condition to form this receptacle : one of them \va.s, 

 however, much less than the other, appearing as a small vesicle ap- 

 pended to the origin of the cystic duct. I have met vvith similar 

 structures in other animals : in the Hyrax Capensis there \vere t\vo 

 accessory gali receptacles; and in a preparation in the Hunterian 

 collection, three hepatic cceca have been almost equally developed 

 to forra the biliary reservoir (this is from some small ąuadruped, 

 species unknown, No. 820, Gallery Catalogue). I dvvell morepar- 

 ticularly on this circumstance, because it is an anomaly which has 

 not, so far as I know, been described, and because it throvvs some 

 light on that part of the structure of the liver vvhich is generally al- 

 lovved to be still left in the most uncertain statė, viz. the ultimate 

 disposition of the biliary ducts. It obviously accords best vvith the 

 opinion of Mūller, that the tubidi biliarii terminate in, or rather 

 commence from, blind extremities. 



" The pancreas consisted of a transverse and circular portion, 

 the latter follovving the curve of the duodenum; the duct termi- 

 nated, vvith the duetus choledochus, 2 inches from the pyloms. 



" The spleen occupied the usual situation ; was 4 inches long, 

 1^ inch broad, and i an inch thick ; its weight 134- drachms ; it was 

 of the usual elongated trihedral shape. 



" The kidneys were situated high in the loins, the right higher 

 than the left, ofa somevvhat elongated forra, with a smooth simple 

 exterior, neither notched nor painted with arborescent veins, as in 

 the typical Carnivora. The tubuli urinįferi terroinated on a simple 

 elongated mamilla, formed by the union of five lateral processes. 

 The ureters entered, as usual, behind the neck of the bladder. 



** The supra-renal glands were very small, reddish coloured, and 

 healthy, although imbedded in a dense strumous mass vvhich occu- 

 pied the interspace of the kidneys. 



" The ovaries vvere a little larger than peas, vvith a smooth ex- 

 terior, enveloped in a loose serous capsule having only a small open- 

 ing turned tovvards the horn of the uterus, and in vvhich the hcad of 

 a probe could be vvith difEculty admitted. They vcere suspcnded 

 by a duplicature of peritoneum continued from the lovver end of each 

 kidney. 



" The length of the corpus uteri was 1 inch ; of each cornu 2 

 mches ; of the true vagina -f- of an inch; of the urethro-sexual 

 canal 1 inch. A vvell-marked transverse fold dividts this from the 



