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March 22, 1836. 

 Richard Owen, Esq., in the Chair 



The following Notes by Mr. Martin on the visceral and osteological 

 Anatomy of the Cariama, Dicholophus cristatus, 111., were read. 



"The Cariama, of the examination of which I made the following 

 notes, was sent to the Society by its President, the Earl of Derby, in 

 November, 1835. It was a female, and had died from the effects of 

 extensive visceral inflammation. 



" The trachea, without making any curvature or loop, passed straight 

 into the chest. The oesophagus, immediately before its entrance, pre- 

 sented a gentle but evident dilatation. On carefully dissecting away 

 the abdominal muscles, the gizzard appeared just below the apex of 

 the sternum, lying in a vertical position, so that its defined abdominal 

 edge seemed a continuation of the sternal apex. On each side above 

 was a large air-cell extending along the ribs, but separated from what 

 may be termed the thoracic air-cell ; and on each side below was 

 another, occupying the iliac region, the membrane being fixed to the 

 pubic bones. From the gizzard a kind of fatty omentum, if the term 

 be allowed, stretched over the intestines ; this omentum, however, 

 was only the peritoneal membrane lining the abdominal muscles, 

 having fat disposed in a foliaceous manner between its two lamin(E. 

 Below the gizzard lay the duodenum, its loose fold sweeping round 

 that viscus in a horseshoe form. Each lobe of the liver was very soft, 

 and, as it were, decomposed in structure, of a rose pink colour, and 

 glued firmly to the peritoneal cavity by a layer of coagulated lymph 

 half an inch thick j and the abdominal cavity was filled with bloody 

 serum. 



" The gizzard was of large size, thin, but muscular, with a radiating 

 tendinous patch on each side, of the size of half-a-crown. It was 

 lined with a strong coriaceous membrane, of a yellowish colour, irre- 

 gularly puckered. The proventriculus was lined for the extent of 2 

 inches above its entrance into the gizzard with a zone of thickly set 

 glands. 



" The duodenum, on leaving the gizzard, made a sweep of 6 inches, 

 from the right to the left, round that viscus, and then, returning sud- 

 denly upon itself, embraced in this flexure, as usual, the pancreas. The 

 whole of the small intestines were disposed in loops of a similar na- 

 ture, but of less extent. The duodenum at its commencement was a 

 little enlarged ; but not into anything like a pyloric appendix as in 

 the Adjutant. 



" The gall-bladder was of the size of u walnut; and the biliary duct, 



