14 Mr. Holberten’s and Mr. Yarrell’s 
attack ; I would reply, that it performed the feat with wonderful prompt- 
ness and dexterity, not at all in a manner to be expected from a novice. 
In short, there can scarcely be a doubt that the means employed were 
those to which it was impelled by its natural instinct. 
Art. V. Notes on the internal appearance of several 
Animals examined after Death, in the Collection of the 
Zoological Society. By'T. H. Hotserton, Esg., M.R.C.S., 
§c., and WittraM YarRRELL, Esq., F.LS., F.Z.S., &c. 
{Continued from Vol. IV, page 322.] 
Active Gipson. Hylobates agilis, F. Cuv. 
THE skeleton presented seven true, and six false ribs on each side, 
the last three floating. The upper and lower extremities incapable of 
the same degree of extension as in man, either at the elbows or knees, 
owing to strong fascial expansions of the flexor tendons passing in front 
of the elbow, and behind the knee joints, to be attached to the upper 
halves of the respective bones below these parts. 
The stomach was placed more longitudinally than in the human sub- 
ject, particularly from the cardiac orifice, the first two-thirds passing 
straight down the left side; the other third portion crossed directly over 
to the right, terminating in the duodenum, which soon passed again to- 
wards the spine, (not being placed so far to the right as in the human 
subject,) and enclosed the head of the pancreas. The coats of the sto- 
mach were remarkably and uniformly thick; the great omentum quite 
devoid of fat; no valvule conniventes, nor appendices epiploice. The 
large intestines were thrown into folds by three longitudinal bands, as in 
the human subject. A long glandular body of 2 inches and 2 in length 
and nearly + of an inch wide, placed in the folds of the mesentery, ap- 
peared to perform the office of the mesenteric glands. The attachments 
