oOtI: Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



On the other hand, Chapman "^ and Cavanna ^ represent them 

 as V-shaped. I examined them carefully in my specimen, 

 as BischofF^ refers to the question in connection with the 

 determination of the nature of the animal called Mafuca, 

 which died in the Zoological Gardens at Dresden, and 

 about which opinions differed, some looking upon it as 

 a chimpanzee and others as a gorilla. I found the papilla) 

 arranged so as to resemble the letter Y rather than V or T. 

 There were seven papillae — three in the middle line forming 

 the stem of the Y, and two on either side, representing its 

 limbs. Bischoff found them collected into the form of a Y 

 in Mafuca. 



The soft palate was provided with a distinct uvula, and 

 the tonsils were well developed. The stomach resembled 

 that of the human subject in its shape and position. The 

 small intestines were 11 feet long, and the large intestines 

 3 feet. Attempts have been made to show that the large 

 intestines, as compared with the small intestines, are rela- 

 tively longer in the chimpanzee than in man. Their relative 

 lengths, however, vary so much in different specimens, that 

 the question has no morphological significance. The c?ecum 

 and vermiform appendix were well developed — the former 

 w^as 2 J inches in length, and the latter nearly 5 inches. On 

 filling the large intestines with water from the rectum, it did 

 not escape by ileo-csecal opening into ileum even under the 

 pressure of a column of water one foot high. There were no 

 valvules conniventes in the small intestines, but Beyer's 

 patches were very distinct. I counted about twenty, exclud- 

 ing a few very small ones. Their average size was about | of 

 an inch in length, and about a :| of an inch in breadth. The 

 villi were well developed, and could be distinctly recognised 

 by the naked eye even in the ileum. The bile and pancreatic 

 ducts opened by a common orifice into the second part of the 

 duodenum. Solitary glands were abundant in the largo 

 intestines. There were no indications in the rectum of the 

 transverse folds, such as are found in man. 



^ Proc. Acad. Nat. Science of Philadelphia, 1879. 



2 Archivio per I'antropologia, vol, ii., p. 211, 1875. 



2 Mittheilungen der kgl. zool. Mus. zu Dresden, Heft 2. 



