AXATOMY OF THE THIIEE-TOED SLOTH. 



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of the Reptilia, and Klaatsch (5) lias described tLe peritoneum 

 exhaustively in them. 



The Foramen of Winslow is also very wide as in the case of 

 Reptiles. It has the usual boundaries. 



In Plate II. A the ventral wall of the lesser sac has been 

 removed round the letters MGIJKIj and one sees the pancreas (P) 

 in the dorsal wall of the sac. 



Text-figure 13. 



Tliu suspensory ligaments of tlie liver and tlie maniiur in wliicli tlieir continuatioiis 

 enter into tlie formation of the anterior part of the coramon nie»^eiitery. Two 

 halves, B' and B", of A, pass round the edges of the liver at the points + 

 and X . They eventually become the mesentery D of figs. C and D. A and a. 

 inferior vena cava, c: lesser omeutum. E; cesophagus. 



Ligaments of the Liver. 



When the liver is depressed so as to show the anterior surface 

 (text fig. 13, A), one can see how it is connected to the diaphragm 

 by a V-shaped sheet of peritoneum whose apex is dorsal. 'Jlie 



