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" The plastron being removed, the viscus which first attracted 

 notice was the liver, of large dimensions, stretching across from side 

 to side, and quite covering the stomach. Its structure was very 

 ■firm, and its colour a dull ochre. It consisted of two lobes, both 

 deeply fissured. In the cleft of the right lobe was situated the gall- 

 bladder, of tlie size of a large nut, and containing gieen bile. Tiie 

 cystic and hepatic ducts united, and entered the duodenum \\ inch 

 below the pyloms. 



" On the Jiver being turned aside, the stomach presented itself; its 

 coats \vere (irm and thick, especially in the pyloric portion, which 

 was produced long and narrow to the extent of 3^ inches j the 

 totai length of the stomach was 6| inches. 



" The small intestines, remarkable also for their firraness, mea- 

 sured 2 feet 8 inches in length, and terminated in large intestines 

 very little exceeding them in circumference. In the Testudo In- 

 dica lately dissected, there vvas no ccecum ; but in the present 

 species the ccecum existed ; its form was globular, On the left side 

 the large intestine assumed asigmoid flexure with a bold svveeping 

 fold, and then took on a straight and short course to the cloaca ; 

 the length of the large intestines vvas 1 foot 8 inches. They con- 

 tained faeculent matter in small quantity, consisting of fibrous vege- 

 table substance. There were no longitudlnal bands. 



" The cloaca, into which opened the bladder and oviducts, was 

 in length 2 or 3 inches. The bladder in the present instance 

 did not exhibit that immense volume which was so remarkable in 

 the Te&t. Indica : it was of a moderate size ; both in this respect and 

 in figure resembling a pear. It was united to the sides of the upper 

 shell by a broad peritoneal ligament, and was connected also to the 

 pelvis by several fibrous bands. Its coats vvere extremely thin and 

 fibrous; and it contained a small quantity of thick fluid. 



" The oviducts were before their opening into the cloaca united 

 for a considerable distance, and were there thick and firm, becoming 

 gradually thinner as they proceeded up\vards, their course being in 

 an indefinite convoluted manner. Throughout the greatest part of 

 their length there ran a number of longitudinal folds, which became 

 fainter, and were at length obliterated as the oviducts proceeded. 



•' The ovaries contained a multitude of eggs of various sizes, and 

 of a round figure ; fifty of them at least vvere nearly as large as a 

 pigeon's egg : they vvere not covered vvith a shell, and vvere filled 

 with a thick yellovv yelk. 



" The kidneys laid upon the lungs (vvhich extended over the 

 carapace), to vvliich they adhered ; their figure vvas somevvhat 3-sided, 

 from a broad flat base, vvith a rounded apex : their length vvas 2^ 

 inches. Their surface vvas convoluted in a very singular manner, 

 the folds being divisible, producing an appearance noc unlike that 

 of the cerebellnm, vvhich they also resembled in colour. 



" On the mesocolon and near the intestine vvas situated an oval 

 glandular body of a dark colour, and of the size of a sparrovv's egg, 

 containing vvhite gritty specks. From this, vvhich I suspected to 

 be the spleen, a large vein proceeded along the mesentery, and uni- 



