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largest, and has two deep fissures in it, the right fissure for the gall- 

 bladder, the left for the ligamentum rotundum. The left lobe is about 

 the size of the two on the right. The lobulus Spigelii is a long small lobe. 



The pancreas is very loose, and might in one view be considered as 

 lying in a doubling of the posterior part of the mouth of the epiploon. 

 It passes from the spleen on the left towards the right ; and, when got 

 to the beginning of the duodenum, it makes a pretty quick turn towards 

 the left again, which is attached to the posterior surface of the vena 

 portarum : this may be called little pancreas. 



The spleen is pretty large, having both the anterior and posterior 

 part of the epiploon attached to it ; as if it were fixed upon the epiploon. 



The kidneys are conglobate ; the cortical substance is of a lightish 

 dun yellow, and is fibrous, all passing towards the circumference of the 

 tubular structure. The tubular is of a brownish red, much the common 

 colour in other animals. There is but one mammilla, whose internal 

 part or surface begins by several roots, as if different mammillae were 

 uniting into one 1 . 



The heart is rather flat, the right ventricle forming a faint apex. 

 There is a long vena cava between the heart and diaphragm. 



The lungs are divided into three lobes on the left side ; the lower 

 lobe is attached to the oesophagus by a thin membrane : on the right 

 side they are divided into four, including the lobe that passes between 

 the pericardium and diaphragm, which is a pretty large lobe in this 

 animal, owing to the heart's being some way from the diaphragm : this 

 lobe has three processes or points. 



There are two bags at the anus, one on each side, which open by 

 their ducts just within the verge of the anus upon a small nipple. The 

 glandular parts of these bags are attached at the end next to the opening, 

 and the duct passes through the gland. The substance secreted is thin 

 or wateiy, and has a very pungent smell, of the garlicy kind, so that 

 the nose can hardly be held over it. It is the same smell as that of 

 the American skunk. 



[The Ratel (Ratelus mellivorus, Storr).] 



Moses 2 . — This animal is called, in India, 'Scea-Gosh,' i. e. Black 

 Ears 3 . 



i [Hunt. Prep. No. 1223.] 



2 [When forming the Osteological Catalogue and arranging that part of the 

 Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, I found, among the Hunterian un- 

 exhibited stores, most of the bones of tins animal, labelled : — Skeleton of ' Moses ; ' 

 they now form the specimens Nos. 4114 — 4131, Osteol. Series.] 



3 [A similar name has been given to the East Indian lynx or caracal ; see p. 50.] 



