24 QUADRUMANA. 



forwards or nearer the middle of the pelvis, as the pelvis itself is not so 

 deep, being more like that in the hnman foetus. 



The uterus was longer than in the human, and much smaller in pro- 

 portion, and approached to that of the quadruped. 



She died in what they called 'in heat;' for the external labia and all 

 about the anus and perineum were very much distended, larger than 

 one's two fists. The glans clitoridis was become quite smooth by the 

 distension, and the vagina was become very large and rugous. This 

 distension was owing to a fluid that had got into those parts ; for, when 

 cut into, it was just like a watery scrotum. The clitoris was very large 

 and long, about 3 inches in length, much longer than at other times. 

 I should imagine it did not communicate with the plexus retiformis ; 

 for, by distending it with air, none of it got into these places, nor did 

 any of the injection that I injected it with. There was no hymen, 

 nor any caruncula? myrtiformes : indeed I never saw a hymen in any 1 . 

 The plexus retiformes were pretty circumscribed bodies on each side of 

 the vagina : they did not communicate with one another, and were very 

 prominent. The internal surface of the vagina very rugous, all the 

 other parts were much as in the human. 



This monkey was said to have been in her courses a little while 

 before she died. I observed all round the os tineas a dark ring, which 

 was no more than a fullness of the vessels there. 



There was on each side of the ischium a thick cuticula, like that on 

 the sole of the foot, but rather stronger. This was to sit upon ; and 

 underneath there was a yellow fat, the cells of which were ligamentoxis. 



[Family PLATYRHINA.] 



[The Spider-monkey (Ateles paniscus, Linn.).] 



In a pretty large black monkey, with a very long tail, the face almost 

 bare, very broad and flat. The external ears were the same with the 

 human, excepting that the lobe was not detached and pendulous. There 

 were but four fingers and no thumb on the hand : the toes were very 

 long, as long as the fingers, and there was a thumb to the foot 2 . 



1 [See, however, the remark at p. 14 ; probably recorded after a dissection sub- 

 sequent to the present.] 



2 [" Simia paniscus ; totus niger: facie livido-cuprea, manicuUs rudimento pollicis 

 nullo." — Fischer, Mammalia, 8vo. p. 39. The skull of this monkey is No. 4691, 

 Osteological Catalogue, and the rest of the skeleton is preserved in the Hunterian 

 Collection.] 



