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MR. A. H. GARROD ON THE 



[Feb. IS, 



or pyloric portion of the stomach. The greatest length of the un- 

 distended organ, which is from the cardiac cul-de-sac to the middle 



Fig. 1. 



Stomach of the Binturong. 

 ces, oesophagus ; pi/, pylorus. 



of the bend above described, is 4% inches, and from the same bend 

 to the pylorus is 2 J inches ; the cul-de-sac is lg inch across. 



Dr. Cantor says, " The stomach is remarkably lengthened, cylin- 

 drical, the parietes much thickened towards pylorus. CEsophagus 

 enters close to fundus ventriculi, in consequence of which there is but 

 a slight difference between the curvatures. Length along the greater 

 curvature 1 foot 2 inches, along the smaller curvature 1 foot 1 inch." 



Prof. Owen remarks of the stomach of the Lion that it "lies less 

 transversely to the abdomen than in Man." In a Leopard Cat 

 (Felis bengalensis) that I have lately dissected the shape of the 

 stomach was almost exactly the same as that of the Binturong ; and 

 it was similarly situated — namely, with its two moieties running lon- 

 gitudinally and not transversely. 



The intestines are evidently much shorter in the specimen that I 

 dissected than in those described by others, as may be seen from the 

 following Table : — 



