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<« The liver was composed of three principal divisions, of which 

 the left had a small appendix at its under surface. The middle or 

 cystic division was deeply cleft into three lobes, the round liga- 

 ment passing into the left notch, and the gall-bladder being lodged 

 in the right, with its Jundus on a level with the upper convex sur- 

 face of the gland. The right division of the liver was also cleft into 

 three lobes, which were again further subdivided by shallower fis- 

 sures, the smallest lobe occupying the usual place of the lobulus 

 Spigelii, viz. the lesser curvature of the stomach. 



" The gall-bladder had an entire investment of peritoneum, and 

 two of the primordial ccEca had been dilated and retained in their 

 original simple condition to form this receptacle: one of them was, 

 however, much less than the other, appearing as a small vesicle ap- 

 pended to the origin of the cystic duct. I have met with similar 

 structures in other animals: in the Hyrax Capensis there were two 

 accessory gall receptacles; and in a preparation in the Hunterian 

 collection, three hepatic ccBca have been almost equally developed 

 to form the biliary reservoir (this is from some small quadruped, 

 species unknown. No. 820, Gallery Catalogue). I dwell more par- 

 ticularly on this circumstance, because it is an anomaly which has 

 not, so far as I know, been described, and because it throws some 

 light on that part of the structure of the liver which is generally al- 

 lowed to be still left in the most uncertain state, viz. the ultimate 

 disposition of the biliary ducts. It obviously accords best with the 

 opinion of Miiller, that the tubtdi biliarii terminate in, or rather 

 commence from, blind extremities. 



'* The pancreas consisted of a transverse and circular portion, 

 the latter following the curve of the duodenum; the duct termi- 

 nated, with the ductus choledochus, 2 inches from the pylorus. 



" The spleen occupied the usual situation ; was 4 inches long, 

 H inch broad, and \ an inch thick ; its weight 13^- drachms ; it was 

 of the usual elongated trihedral shape. 



" The kidneys were situated high in the loins, the right higher 

 than the left, of a somewhat elongated form, with a smooth simple 

 exterior, neither notched nor painted with arborescent veins, as in 

 the typical Carnivora. The tubuli uriniferi terminated on a simple 

 elongated mamilla, formed by the union of five lateral processes. 

 The ureters entered, as usual, behind the neck of the bladder. 



" The supra-renal glands were very small, reddish coloured, and 

 healthy, although imbedded in a dense strumous mass which occu- 

 pied the interspace of the kidneys. 



*' The ovaries were a little larger than peas, with a smooth ex- 

 terior, enveloped in a loose serous capsule having only a small open- 

 ing turned towards the horn of the uterus, and in which the head of 

 a probe could be with difficulty admitted. They were suspended 

 by a duplicature o^ peritoneum continued from the lower end of each 

 kidnev. 



" The length of the corpus uteri was 1 inch ; of each cornu 2 

 inches ; of the true vagina ^ of an inch ; of the urethro-sexual 

 canal 1 inch. A well-marked transverse fold divides this from the 



