488 PROF. W. H. FLOWER ON THE [Nov. 1], 
(2" long), and situated close to the ilio-ceecal valve. There were 
altogether eight such patches. 
The ileum entered the large intestine almost transversely from the 
left, inclining slightly backwards. The short globular czecum (fig. 6) 
Fig. 6. 
Cxewm, distended with plaster of Paris; half the natural size. 
lay on the right psoas muscle and the iliac vessels, its rounded ex- 
tremity being turned backwards and to the left. The colon, nearly 
three times the diameter of the ileum, ascended for 23 inches, till it 
came into contact with the under surface of the stomach, then took a 
rather sudden bend, curving downwards and to the left (there being 
no transverse colon, properly speaking) down to the left iliac fossa, 
a distance of 5", then curved inwards, and finally backwards as it 
entered the pelvis. 
The length of the whole of the large intestine when straightened 
was 15!'. Its width was tolerably uniform, though contracted some- 
what just above the sigmoid flexure, and dilated again in the rectal 
portion. It had smooth but thick muscular walls, the longitudinal 
bands being remarkably distinct. The mucous membrane was 
smooth, with numerous scattered solitary glands, especially abun- 
dant in the ceecum, at the apex of which they form a distinct cluster. 
In the extreme shortness of the ceecum, Prote/es differs both from 
the Hyena (at least H. striata) and also from Herpestes*. The intes- 
tinal canal, from pylorus to anus, is not five times the length of the body 
* Daubenton figures the eaxcum of the Hyena which he dissected ; it is given 
in the table of measurements as 9% long. Reimann found the cecum 6” long 
in the same species (Spicileg. Obsery. Anat. de Hyena: Berol. 1811). 
