192 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO I667. 



from the swallowed hook, by casting it up together with his maw, the inside 

 of it turned out. They found in his maw the sea-herb varec, 5 inches long, 

 and a fish of the like length without head, scales, skin and guts, all being 

 wasted but the musculous flesh, which remained entire. 



5. That the superior part of his great gut had this peculiar, that instead of 

 the usual circumvolutions of guts, the cavity of this was divided transversely by 

 many partitions, consisting of the membranes of the gut turned inwards, and 

 in the figure of a vice, like snail-shells or winding stairs. 



6. That his spleen was double ; his liver divided into two lobes ; the gall 

 found to have more of bitter than sour ; the heart without a pericardium, as 

 large as a hen's egg ; the head almost nothing but a mass of flesh, very little 

 brains in it, and those having very few meanders or windings ; the eyes larger 

 than those of an ox, only half spherical, fiat before ; the sclerotica formed like 

 a cup, very thin, but very hard ; the cornea very tender and soft ; the crys- 

 talline perfectly spherical ; the uvea grayish ; the choroides of the same colour, 

 and pierced for the production of the retina, by a very large hole ; the bottom 

 of this choroides had that lustre of mother of pearl which is found in ter- 

 restrial animals, but wath less vivid colours ; and the retina was also streaked 

 with very apparent sanguineous vessels. 



Concerning the lion it was observed. 



That in its outward shape, and in the constitution of many parts, this animal 

 resembles very much a cat.* 



That there was an admirable structure of his claws ; a peculiar shape and po- 

 sition of his teeth ; a very stiff neck ; a rough and sharp tongue, having points 

 like claws both in hardness and shape. Eyes very clear and bright, even after 

 death, which without closing the eye-lids, lions can cover with a thick and 

 blackish membrane,-|- placed towards the great angle, which by raising itself 

 and reaching towards the small angle, can extend itself over the whole cornea, 

 as in birds, and especially in cats ; the reverse of the anterior uvea, where it 

 lies over the crystalline, is altogether black ; the crystalline very fiat, and its 

 greatest convexity, which is not usual, in its anterior part, as in cats; the 

 aqueous humour very plentiful, equalling almost the sixth part of the vitreous, 

 which plenty was judged to be the cause of the brightness that remains in the 

 eyes after death. 



His throat was not above an inch and a half large : the stomach 6 inches 

 wide, and 18 inches long; all the guts 25 feet long; the liver divided into 7 



* Hence in the Linnaean system the lion and the cat are congeneric species. 

 t Membrana nictitans. 



