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part in the abdomen was loaded with fat. The stomach resembled 

 the human in shape, and had a vvell marked contraction betvveen 

 tlie cardiac and pyloric portions ; tlie muscular -parietės of the 

 latter were half an inch thick ; and, as in the Bears generally, 

 had a tendinous appearance externally on each side. The intes- 

 tines were simply villous internally. The biliary and pancreatic 

 secretions entered at a distance of four inches fVom Ū\q pylorus. 

 There were four or five longitudinal 7-ugcE in the terminai six feet 

 of the intestinal canal ; and the diameter was smallest at this part. 

 There was no ccccum, nor any valvular apparatus in any part of the 

 intestinal canal. 



" The anai follicles were tvvo in nuniber of the size of hazel-nuts. 

 One of them was filled tensely with a yellowish-brown cheesy sub- 

 stance, which had a strong acetous odour; the contents of the other 

 vvere of moie fluid consistence, buthadthe šame odour ; the excre- 

 tory orifice was just capable of admitting a common probe ; the 

 lining membrane was thin, of a vvhite colour, but not so distinctly cu- 

 ticular as is comnionly found ; it resembled more the lining mem- 

 brane of the urinary bladder. Each follicle was surrounded by the 

 fibres of a musele vvhich was inserted into the crus penis. 



"The spleen vvas of a trihedral shape, 7 inches in length, I5 in 

 breadth, of a light mottled pink colour and granular texture ; the 

 splenic vein contributed to form the vena portce in the usual manner. 

 'The pcmcreas was of about the šame size as the spleen 3 but the py- 

 loric portion bent at right angles wlth that whicli passed behind the 

 stomach. 



" The kidneys consisted each of about thirty lobules. The ureters 

 terminated separately but close together at the neck of the bladder. 

 The urinary bladder was a narrovv oblong bag, and about half an 

 inch of the urachus still remained permeable from the Jundus vesiccB, 



" The tongue was long, broad, and thin at the extremity, with the 

 edges turned down. On the upper part vvas a longitudinal mesiai 

 groove extending four inches from the tip. The surface vvas uni- 

 versally papillose, and vvith the simpie papillce were intermixed 

 numerous small vvhite petioh\te papili ce. At a distance of five inches 

 from the tip there vvere eleven large fossulate papillce, forming tvvo 

 sides of a triangle vvhose a^jex is tovvards the epiglottis. Nearer to 

 the epiglottis vvere numerous cuticular pointed processes directed 

 backvvards. The li/ttn, or vvorm of the tongue, vvas 5 inches in 

 length, about the thickness of a crovv quill, and bent upon itself 

 near its middle part : it had fibres of the lingiiales museles inserted 

 into its anterior extreniity, but laid looseiy for the ręst of its extent 

 among the cellular texture in the inlerval of the lingiiales and 

 getiio'glossi. The velum polati vvas terminated at its lovver margin 

 by a short bifid uvula, the ctzygos uvulce consisting here of tvvo quite 

 distinct museles." 



A pair of the middle tail-feathers of the Phasiunus Reevesii, 

 Hardvv. and Gray, (Phas. veneralus, Temra.) vvere exhibited; for 

 one of vvhich the Society isindcbted to the liberality of John Reeves, 



