Dr. J. Grant on the Anatomy of an Orang Outang. 93 
Mr. Breton, Dr. Adam, and myself examined the body a few hours 
after death, and as there was an anxious wish to preserve the remains as 
much as circumstances would permit, for the purpose of being sent to 
the Zoological Society, a minute dissection would have been inconsistent 
with this object. The examination that took place was therefore cursory, 
and had more particular reference to the discovery of the cause of death 
and the solution of doubts respecting the generative system of the animal. 
.\ In opening the cavity of the abdomen, the parietes were found much 
thinner than in the human species; the colour of the skin in the line of 
incision was of a rather deep blue, and the skin itself was strong and 
thick compared with that of other varieties of Simie. The stomach, 
liver, caput cecum coli, and bowels generally bore a strong resemblance 
to the human, both individually and in relative position. A serous 
effusion had taken place in the peritoneal sac, and the stomach was dis- 
tended with air. The caput cecum was filled with indurated foeces, and 
attached to the caput was, as in man, an appendicula vermiformis about 
four inches long. The pylorus was remarkably well defined, with the 
same strong resemblance to the human as that possessed by other organs. 
The duodenum also was formed as in man. 
In his valuable work on Comparative Anatomy, Sir Everard Home 
states, that, in a long-tailed Monkey the intestines were very nearly the 
same as in man, and that thére was an appendicula ceci of a pyramidal 
form, and about half an inch long. In another Monkey, the appendi- 
cula ceci, it is stated in the same work, was entirely wanting ; in a 
large black Monkey (quere Gibbon) it was found three inches long ; and 
in the Baboon it was wanting. Dr. Adam a few days before had exa- 
mined a Lungoor (Simia Entellus, Dufresne,) which had no vermiform 
appendicle to the caput cecum nor proper pylorus. In the animal under 
consideration, as already mentioned, the pylorus was well marked, and 
there was an appendicula vermiformis. 
The whole of the abdominal viscera were more or less in a morbid 
state, there being tuberculous macula on the liver, and tubercles in the 
spleen, stomach, omentum, mesentery, &c.: the tubercles when cut into 
exhibited a whitish cheesy structure. The spleen was one mass of tu- 
berculous disease, and was found strongly adhering to the stomach and 
parietes of the abdomen. Near the inferior part of the stomach, point- 
