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between the pro-stomach and the duodenal bend of intestine, 
the ovarian artery running beside it, and, finally, about the 
middle of the body, it becomes confluent with the posterior 
portion of the uterus. It measures about 21 inches in length, 
and in width =}, inch behind and =, inch im front. 
The albumen-gland resembles that of the snail; it is, how- 
ever, less compact, and more linguaform than boat-shaped, 
and is usually of a yellowish-white aspect both externally 
and within; it is continuous anteriorly with the uterus, and 
it is not easy to draw a decided line of demarcation between 
the two, the albumen-gland seeming but a solid continuation 
of the uterus, on which, moreover, it is folded back, (when in 
its normal position) and retained by almost gossamer folds of 
connective tissue. It lies with the uterus beneath the liver, 
and inferior to, and to the right of, the various folds of 
intestine. In the impregnated individual it attains a length 
of 1 inch, and a breadth of 1 of an inch at its widest 
portion, for it tapers gradually in the posterior direction. 
Owing to the existence of several transverse divisions, 
it is resolved into many segments or lobules, each of which 
assumes a rudely indicated wedge-shape, and is adherent 
internally along the inferior mesial line {to a slender branchiet 
of the oviduct, which traverses the gland from end to end. 
Microscopically, the anatomy is similar to that of Helix—an 
enormous assemblage of albumen-globules and fibres. I 
have never noticed any distinction, as regards opacity, 
between the component lobules of this gland, but on two 
occasions I have found it entirely absent. The uterus may 
be regarded as the tubular prolongation of the albumen- 
gland, which has just received the termination of the egg- 
duct. It is a vessel of considerable calibre, and of a pure, 
translucently white colour; it is thrown into about a hundred 
transverse folds, which give it, to an extraordinary observer, 
the semblance of as many little pockets lying side by side 
on a string, and which may be due to a shortening (rela- 
tively) of one side of the tube, thus giving rise to a corrugated 
or plicated appearance on the other, by forcing it into a 
series of puckers. It is located between the white-of-egg- 
gland and the vagina, to which its anterior end is con- 
joined, and makes two or three serpentine windings in its 
passage from behind forwards ; it is accompanied by a medium- 
sized artery, and has upon its (as it seems) shortened 
border, the testicular follicles, firmly adherent. It is placed 
in the purely abdominal region, and beneath the liver, 
gullet, and folds of the alimentary canal, lying more or less 
to the right side of the body, and retained in situ by various 
