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are distributed mainly over the anterior 23 inches and the posterior 
part, there being a space of about 2 inches between these regions 
which is destitute of them ; there is also an irregular row along each 
edge. There is a distinct Mayer’s organ (papilla foliata) on each 
side, about half an inch long, on the upper edge of the root of the 
tongue. The frenum was attached about 3 inches from the apex. 
The salivary glands resemble those of the Horse in every important 
particular. The parotids are large, extending from the front part of 
the hinge of the lower jaw to the paroccipital process. Steno’s 
duct passes down along the lower edge of the masseter, and then 
runs up again so as to open by an aperture with well-marked lips 
about 2 inch from the upper molar teeth, opposite the line of appo- 
sition of the second and third molars. The submaxillary and sub- 
lingual glands were also large, their ducts opening in the usual 
position. Upper and lower molar glands were present; and there 
was a large palatal gland over the velum palati. The tonsils did not 
present any definite elevations, the glands composing them being 
scattered. Each thyroid was about | inch long, and was connected 
with its fellow by a bridge 3 of an inch in width. 
Poelman figures an external view of the stomach, which, however, 
does not represent it quite accurately. I therefore give another 
figure (fig. 1), showing its internal structnre. 
Fig. 1. 
The stomach, laid open, from the posterior side, one fourth nat. size. 
c.p.f, cardio-pyloric fold ; @s.ep, cesophageal epithelium ; b.d, bile-duct ; 
p.d, pancreatic duct ; v.c, valyuli conniventes, 
The stomach measured about two feet along the greater curva- 
ture. There is a marked constriction between the entrance of the 
cesophagus and the duodenum, about halfway between the two, 
and not close to the duodenum as in Poelman’s gare, in which 
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