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tained in abundance of small cells or bladders. That it has 3 stomachs, 300 

 kidneys, each having its particular cmulgents, pelvis, and ureter; 2 glandulae 

 renales ; 1 spleens ; a urinary bladder ; an omentum or call, made up of a 

 curious contexture or network of vessels and fibres, though Bartholine and Jo. 

 Dan. Major deny it to have any; a pancreas and ductus pancreaticus ; a large 

 liver, but no vesicula fellea, or gall bag. That the organs of generation are 

 very curious, having vasa preparantia, ovaria, tubi fallopiani, uterus, pudendum, 

 clitoris, et ubera. That the thorax is divided from the abdomen by a large mus- 

 cular diaphragm, and in it are the lungs with two large lobes ; the heart, which 

 has two auricles, and two ventricles ; and on the spine an admirable contexture 

 of sanguinary vessels, variously contected and winding, emerging from the me- 

 dulla spinalis. That above the sternum was the thymus, the glandulae maxil- 

 lares, thyroideae. In the mouth he describes the tongue, the teeth, the larynx, 

 which is very remarkable, the fistula or spiraculum, through which it spouts out 

 water like whales ; the os hyoidea. He takes notice also, that this fish had eye- 

 lids, and in them he observed Steno's ductus. That the eyes had all the tu- 

 nicles, humours, and muscles, as a man's, as also the musculus septimus, or sus- 

 pensorius of brutes. That the organ of the ear was different from any yet 

 described, and the porus auditorius very small. That it had a tympanum, but 

 no incus, stapes, or malleolus. That the brain was very large, and so different 

 from those of other fishes, that almost in all things it resembled Dr. Willis's 

 figures, only it wanted the par olfactorium, or the first pair of nerves. In the 

 skeleton the most remarkable thing, he observes, is the fore fin, which much 

 resembles an arm, having a scapula, an os humeri or brachii, -a. radius and ulna, 

 a carpus, metacarpus, and five digiti. And though but from a single subject, 

 yet the author has been so exact and curious in describing each part, that he 

 has supplied several defects, and corrected many errors in the accounts of the 

 anatomy of this fish given us formerly by Rondeletius, Bartholine, Jo. Dan. 

 Major, and some others, and illustrated the whole with various figures. 



The first Vol. of the English Atlas, containing a Description of the Places next 

 the North Pole, as also of Miiscovy, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and their SC' 

 veral Dependencies. Oxford, l680. Philos. Collect. N° 2, p. SQ. 



An Account of an Observation (consonant with that of Dr, Tysmi) made by Dr. 

 Samson, on dissecting a morbid Body. Philos. Collect. N° 2, p. 4Q. 



In a woman lately dissected, who was the day before her death with great dif- 



