270 Transactions.—Zooloyy. 
speak of the commencement of the intestine, passed directly forwards, 
Plunged immediately into a cylindrical mass of densely packed pyloric 
pancreatic ceca. These were short, adherent to one another, and so closely 
massed that the intestine appeared to have no proper wall, appearing more 
like a broad glandular duct; on cutting into the pancreatic mass, a white 
chylous fluid exuded abundantly. The glandular mass was 15in. long by 
more than 3in. broad. At its extremity the thin-walled intestine emerged 
from the pancreatic mass and turned abruptly backwards, passing without 
any convolution to the vent. It was full of a gruelly fluid. 
The stomach exhibited, in its anterior part, strong longitudinal 
muscular bundles becoming more and more attenuated as they proceeded 
backwards. It was empty, being merely coated with a layer of mucus, 
stained of a pinkish hue, with dark red particles here and there. A 
microscopic examination of this mucus made with the object of determining 
the nature of the food of this deep-sea fish, discovered myriads of minute 
conical calcareous bodies, some of them perforated longitudinally, having a 
very uniform size of about 41, inch by 441,4 inch broad at the base. I do 
not know what these may be, but am inclined to think that they are the 
cutaneous species of some echinoderm. 
The fish was a female, the ova exceedingly minute and undeveloped. A 
single oviduct, divided 12 inches anteriorly to the vent into two cylindrical 
ovaries, these ran forward to a point 17 inches posteriorly to the snout, the 
right being somewhat smaller than the left, they each terminated in a 
strong suspensary ligament. 
The large liver, of a most beautiful vivid orange tint, weighed 41b. 12302. 
It was cleft into two longitudinal lobes posteriorly; there was also some 
minor lobation, one smaller lobe overlapping the large gall bladder which 
was full of dirty watery fluid. The liver overlapped the pyloric mass which 
was entered by the ductus choledocus. 
The kidneys had the usual situation and appearance ; their length was 
2ft. 6in. There was no swim-bladder, and of the dorsal bladders spoken 
of by Mr. Travers I need hardly say there was no trace. It is evident that 
the curious spaces left by the detachment of the strong longitudinal 
 intermuscular septa were mistaken for bladders by that gentleman. 
The skeleton consisted of the softest cartilage; it would have been & 
matter of the greatest diffieulty to isolate and preserve it. 
