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telradactyla, lllig., which had recently been added to tlie Society's 

 CoUection. Both individuals were extreraely gentie, and suffered 

 themselves to be handled and played with, vvitliout evincing any 

 uneasiness. 



At the request of the Chairnnan, Mr. Martin reported the morbid 

 appearances observed in the Lion nhich recently died at the So- 

 ciety's Gardens. Before removing the skin, the \vhole of the body 

 presented aremarkably bloated appearance,\vhich was found on exa- 

 mination to be o\ving to general emphysema. This was suspected by 

 Mr.Martin to be the result of morbid arterial secretion ; it couid not 

 have been caused by putrefaction, the animal having been dead but 

 a few hours, and ihe body being still warm. The šame appearance 

 had been not unfrequently observed by Mr. Spooner, the Veteri- 

 nary Surgeon of the establishment, in animals worn out by hnger- 

 ing chronic disease. On examining the lungs, their celiular struc- 

 ture was found completely obliterated, except in one small portion, 

 where alone any oxygenation of the blood could have takcn place. 

 They presented a dark appearance on the surface, with a hardness 

 or density of structure vvhich mušt have resulted from lon^-conti- 

 nued inflammation. They were also partially studded with tubercles. 

 On cutting into them, purulent matter oozed from the incision, and 

 Severai abscesses, though not large, \vere discovered. The liver 

 was dark, and so soft as to break down with the slightest touch. 

 The spleen presented no decided trace of disease. The intestines 

 adjacent to the liver vvere tinged \vith a dark and some\vhat purplish 

 hue ; but although distended with air presented nothing remark- 

 able. The stomach contained only a little bile and mucus. 



The museles generally were pale and flabby, as might have been 

 anticipated, vvhere a chronic disease had \vasted the vital energies, 

 and vvhere the blood, impeded in its passage through the lungs, had 

 long ceased to be suflGciently oxygenated. 



Mr. Owen commenced the reading of his account of the Myology 

 of the Simia Satyrus, L. He confined himself to the notice of 

 such museles as are peculiar to that animal, and have not any ana- 

 logues in the human frame ; of those which, if analogous, deviate 

 remarkably in their proportions and attachments; and lastly, of 

 such as have been considered as of doubtful existence in the Orang. 



The occipito-frontalis, which escaped the observation of Tyson 

 and Dr. Traill (Wernerian Trans. iii.) in the Chimpanzee , and \vhich 

 some physiologists have asserted to be peculiar to man, is distinctly 

 developed in the Orang Utan. Portions of this musele were also 

 found on the head of a Chimpanzee that had been flayed with great 

 care, the ręst having been removed with the scalp, to which the 

 tendinous part closely adheres. 



The follo\ving museles of the face vvere described, corrugator 

 supercilii, levator lahii superioris alcBque naši, levator anguli oris, 

 zygomaticus major, depressor anguli oris, orbicularis palpebrarum 

 and orbicularis oris. On reflecting the inner membrane of the lips. 



