PALATAL GROWTH IN MOUTH OF CAMEL. AGT 
paniment of an abominable gurgling noise” as a “ thin mem- 
branous bladder... . until it is as large as the animal’s head” *. 
Text-figure 1. 
Pharynx of Camel, opened from the right side. 
B.PH., buccal pharynx; £., epiglottis; N.PH., naso-pharynx; CHs., cesophagus; 
P., soft palate (cut edge); P.’, posterior free margin of soft palate; P.A., pala- 
tine appendage; 7'., base of tongue. 
From published descriptions of the process and from remarks 
made by Prof. Minchin and others at the meeting, it appears as 
though the appendage were protruded by inflation with air, but 
a careful examination of the specimen figured above revealed no 
hole or passage leading from the naso-pharynx or elsewhere 
through which air could be forced into the interior of the organ. 
The only indication of anything of the kind was a shallow cleft 
or recess in the mid-line of the floor of the naso-pharynx above the 
root of the appendage. But the size of this pit (3°5 em. long and 
2-5 em. deep) even allowing for considerable powers of distension, 
was not great enough to suggest that it could by any possibility 
be sufficiently blown out to fill the whole interior of the ap- 
pendage. 
* Spencer & Gillen, Across Australia, 1912, vol. i. p. 38, fig. 17. 
