160 MR. bynoe's observations. 



soon dried up and became an uniform mass. The 

 intense heat had rendered it so firm that nothing- 

 could be made of it ; all the gelatinous parts had 

 adhered so firmly to the bag, that I was compelled 

 to abandon it. My object was to ascertain if there 

 was a communication in a greater state of develop- 

 ment between the womb and posterior part of the 

 mammse, during the period of gestation ; and I was 

 fancying I had arrived at some conclusion, but all 

 my hopes were destroyed by one fatal smash ! So 

 many theories have been formed on that point — that 

 to advance this as a fact, would be treading too 

 firmly on tender ground. At the first view of the 

 gelatinous mass I seriously considered whether it 

 could have been a gland, and whether the pulsation 

 might have been communicated from muscular 

 twitchings ; I took my eye off the substance for some 

 time, and on again looking at it, felt more con- 

 fident than ever, that it was not a glandular sub- 

 stance. Its peculiar configuration and want of 

 solidity proved it indeed not to be gland ; its motion, 

 on touching it with the point of the finger, was so much 

 that of an embryonic animal, that I at once, without 

 further investigation, pronounced it a kangaroo. 



" Might not the tube I discovered convey the ani- 

 mal to the posterior part of the mammsB, where it 

 might become attached to the nipple in an inverted 

 state ? At any rate it was not in the body of the uterus. 

 Had the mass been saved I should have taken one 

 more look of inquiry without attempting to alter its 



