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posterior part of the lungs to the pleura costalis. The pericardium contained 

 a great quantity of serum, of which there was also a small effusion in the 

 cavity of the thorax. The heart was large; its auricles were preternaturally 

 distended, and both these and the ventricles were filled with coagulated blood. 

 At the places of their insertion into the heart, the arteries were, if not ossified, 

 at least cartilaginous. The semilunar valves were nearly of a cartilaginous 

 hardness. The aorta descendens was exceedingly large, its diameter being 

 twice that of the oesophagus. A number of indurated lenticular glands were 

 seen on the inner surface of the oesophagus. 



On examining the head, the substance of the cranium was found unusually 

 dense, and the sutures nearly obliterated. The dura mater was twice the usual 

 thickness, and resembled leather. The pia mater was easily separated from 

 the brain, in consequence of an effusion of serum. The ventricles were full 

 of serum; of which fluid there was also a considerable quantity collected at 

 the basis of the brain. The plexus choroides was beset with glands of the size 

 of peas, filled with coagulated lymph. The septum pellucidum was very con- 

 spicuous. The remainder of the substance of the brain was more flaccid 

 than usual. 



It is added, that the aforesaid Vopper had told many people that his father 

 had 3 children after he was turned of 100; and that few of his ancestors had 

 died before they were 100 years old. He himself had a daughter who was 

 baptized at DiessenhofFen on the 18th of Aug. 1707. 



An Account of the Coati Mondi of Brasil, By Dr, George Mackenzie, 



N°377, p. 317. 



The Coati Mondi of Brasil is seldom or never brought alive into Europe ; 

 yet 2 of them were found in Capt. Green's ship, a pirate ; one of which died 

 in my custody of a wound it received in the thigh, which I caused to be dis- 

 sected; an account of which, compared with that which the Parisian academists 

 published, is now sent. They differ in several particulars, most of which may 

 proceed from the difference of sex, theirs being a male, and ours a female. 



Theirs was 64- inches from the end of the snout to the hinder part of the 

 head, ours was only 4; theirs was 16 inches from the occiput to the beginning 

 of the tail, ours was 10; theirs from the insertion of the tail to the end was 

 13 inches, ours 12 ; theirs from the top of the back to the extremity of the 

 fore feet was 10 inches, ours was 7 ; theirs from the top of the back to the 

 extremity of the hinder feet was 12 inches, ours 8; the snout of theirs was 

 very long and moveable, like that of a hog, but straighter and longer in pro- 

 portion; but ours was only 2 inches; the 4 paws had each 5 toes, the claws 



