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PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE 



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evenly with small, fine, soft conical papillae directed backwards. 

 Amongst them a few round fungiform papillae are scattered ; but 

 these become much more conspicuous on the intermolar eminence. 

 There is no sublingua. 



The salivary glands are very largely developed. 



The parotid is exceedingly large and of very loose texture, its 

 very numerous lobules being very much scattered and in part loosely 

 coherent. It is arranged in two superimposed layers in folds of 

 gland-substance, and extends over the whole side of the neck, 

 where it forms a large mass dipping iuto a triangular cavity above 

 the cleido-mastoid muscle, between it and the levator claviculce, 

 and even a little beyond the clavicle. Its anterior margin is 

 strongly concave forwards, extending almost as far anteriorly 



Fig. 1. 



Tongue of Erethyston dorsatus. 

 cv, circum vallate papillse. 



beneath the mandibular angle as it does in front of the opening of 

 the external auditory meatus. Its duct runs forwards across the 

 masseter muscle, just below and parallel with the lower border of 

 the zygoma, to open beside the anterior molar tooth. 



The submaxillanj is large and of very similar texture to, but only 

 between 5 and | the size of the parotid. It is pyriform in shape, 

 lying beside the inner border of the masseter, and separated from its 

 fellow of the opposite side by the sternohyoid muscles. Its duct 

 runs forwards along the inferior margin of the masseter muscle to 

 end as usual. The length of the submaxillary is about 2"'4, its 

 breadth about 1""5. The gland is almost divisible into two parts. 



