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" The small intestines were not much thicker than a quill for a 

 considerable distance, but gradually increased in circumference : 

 their length was 5 feet 7 inches, and consequently more than a foot 

 greater than the measurement given by Mr. Owen. On their inner 

 coat were obser\^ed the little sacculi noticed by Mr. Owen, as well as 

 the remarkable villi, which are thickly set. The breadth of the me- 

 sentery was about 1 J- inch. The first or true cacum was contracted 

 into folds by three longitudinal bands, and so made trifid at the ex- 

 tremity : its length was about 24- inches, its circiunference 9. The 

 entrance of the small intestine was succeeded by a sacculated portion 

 (the bands of which were continued from the cacum) contorted spi- 

 rally, beyond which the intestine, abruptly turning and becoming at 

 once smaller, assumed a sigmoid flexure, gradually enlarging as it 

 proceeded till it merged into two csecal appendages, of a conical 

 figure with an enlarged base and a vermiform termination. The 

 distance between the first ccecum and the base of these appendages 

 was found to be 1 foot 7 inches. Below these csecal appendages the 

 large intestine measured 5^ inches in circumference ; it, however, 

 gradually but rapidly diminished in size. From this part to its ter- 

 mination the large intestine measured 2 feet 7 inches. 



" The pancreas was small, irregular, and entirely embraced by the 

 first fold of the duodenum : its secretion enters the intestine by two 

 ducts, one terminating along with the biliary duct, the other 4ths of 

 an inch lower down. 



" The spleen was broad and somewhat hatchet-shaped, having a 

 projecting narrow slip from a semilunar base : its length was 2 inches, 

 its breadth 1 inch. 



" The heart was bifid at the apex ; its length l4- inch, and its 

 bregidth 1 4^. The larynx was small ; and the trachea consisted of 36 

 rings. The oesophagus was smooth. The thyroid glands were small 

 and oval, and 4- inch long. The tongue was 2+ inches in length, 

 smooth, with an elevated projection in the middle, and an obscure 

 furrow running down it, from which diverged transversely several 

 arched depressions. The palate was deeply furrowed with alternate 

 transverse ridges and depressions on each side of a middle line, the 

 ridges on one side corresponding to the depressions on the other. 



"The kidneys were flattened; in length they measured I4 inch, 

 in breadth \ : the tubuli uriniferi converged into one large conical 

 papilla. The ureters entered the fundus of the bladder, not on its 

 dorsal side, (for it lay flat and empty,) but laterally on the edge, 

 piercing the bladder obliquely, as described by Mr. Owen. 'I'he 

 supra-renal glands were small greyish bodies, about the size of a 

 pea. The testes, the vesiculce seminales, the double prostate gland, 

 and the penis were as described by Mr. Owen. 



" The sternum consisted of six distinct osseous pieces, indejien- 

 dent of the xiphoid cartilage, which was shaped like a spade : its 

 length was 2^ inches exclusive of the cartilage. The true ribs were 

 seven in number on each side, and the false ribs fourteen. The cer- 



