288 MR. A. H. GARROD ON THE MUSK-DEER. __ [ Mar. 20, 
the only organ which gave any proof of lesion being the psalterium, in 
which several minute abscesses were found along the attached margins 
of several of the laminz. 
Zoologically the specimen has given me the opportunity of veri- 
fying many of the statements both of Pallas in his exhaustive treatise 
on the animal!, and of Prof. Flower in his memoir above referred 
to. My own attention having been much devoted of late to the 
anatomy of the Ruminantia, I was particularly pleased at having the 
opportunity of dissecting the species, especially as it was of the male 
sex, and as Prof. Flower has most kindly allowed me to compare its 
viscera with those of the female specimen in the Museum of the 
College of Surgeons. 
Considering the various organs seriatim, I found that the tongue 
greed exactly with that figured by Prof. Flower, as did the epiglottis 
in being pointed in the middle line, and the stomach in its general 
configuration. 
In the rumen the villi were shorter than in most of the Cervide 
and more sparsely scattered. There were no traces of any special 
glandular pouch on the anterior wall of the viscus. 
In the reticulum the shallow cells were peculiar in being com- 
paratively small, and more numerous than is generally the case. 
The psalterium did not differ, except in the number of its lamellee, 
from the description given by Pallas; and it appears to me that Prof. 
Flower, at the same time that he was the first to lay proper stress 
upon its non-typical nature, hardly read correctly the account given 
by the earlier observer; for in the College specimen, although the 
rows of papillee are particularly feeble, nevertheless it might be said 
of them “inter majores laminas rugze intercalares, vel lamellule ac- 
cessorize angustiores.’”’ Inthe stomach under consideration they 
are much more conspicuous. The organ is therefore dupliciplicate, 
and differs from that of any other Ruminant examined by me, as I 
have elsewhere shown’, in that the lamellze are arranged more closely 
than is usually the case, and at the same time there is a great 
deficiency in minor folds, and an excess of those of higher degree. - 
Pallas counted 23 or 25 major lamelle in the psalterium of his 
specimens; Prof. Flower, 19 in his; there were 21 in the spe- 
cimen now under consideration. 
The small intestine was 24 feet 2 inches in length, the large intes- 
tine measuring 11 feet 9 inches, and the ceecum 53 inches. There 
were three and a half double turns in the colic coil, which is one more 
than is generally found in larger species, and two more than is fre- 
quently observed in smaller ones. Both the ceecum and the colon 
were curiously mottled from the collection of fatin the course of the 
vessels traversing their surface, as is mentioned by Pallas, and shown 
in his figure of the former organ. 
With reference to the peculiar dilatation of the colon in the region 
of the ileo-ceecal valve, this is produced by the considerable develop- 
ment of a glandular surface, which is quite as well marked in the 
Giraffe (Camelopardalis giraffa), as was first pointed out by Dr, T. 
'Spicilegia Zoologica, fasciculus xiii. (1779). ? Antea, p. 8. 
