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The heart had some fat upon it. There was no thymus gland, nor 

 any foramen ovale [between the auricles of the heart]. The stomach is 

 much as in the otter, is stronger in the coats than in the human, and is 

 bent near the pylorus, as in the lion-tribe; so that the oesophagus 

 passes in nearer the great end than in the human subject. The stomach 

 in them [the lion-tribe] is generally bent, and the bending is generally 

 more in a line with the body ; so that it will be obliged to make a quick 

 turn up, to allow of the pylorus being near the liver ; for the pylorus is 

 at the [same ?] distance from the liver in all animals in proportion to 

 the size of the animal. 



Duodenum, jejunum, ileum, colon, and rectum are the same as in the 

 racoon, badger, otter, and bear ; only that the duodenum is very glan- 

 dular in its coats between the insertion of the ducts and the pylorus 1 . 



The liver is divided into five lobes, besides the lobulus Spigelii. The 

 gall-bladder lies in a deep sulcus of the middle lobe : it is almost round, 

 and the cystic duct passes out at the most anterior part, or what would 

 seem to be the fundus, from its beginning : it creeps or lies along the 

 under posterior surface of the bladder, towards the vena portoe, where 

 it joins the vessels of the liver, along which it passes, receiving the 

 hepatic ducts, at last becoming [?] and entering the duodenum about 

 3 inches from the pylorus. 



The pancreas is as in the otter ; but the membrane that is attached 

 to the posterior inferior edge is much broader, and the epiploon is 

 attached to that membrane instead of to the pancreas, towards the 

 small end of the pancreas. 



The kidneys are conglomerate : their veins are, some on the external 

 surface, and some in the centre. Those on the external surface are 

 not connected to the capsule of the kidney. Some of the internal veins 

 pass quite through and ramify on the external surface; passing out 

 from a centre and anastomosing with the external ones. 



Female Organs of Generation. — The clitoris is pretty large, enclosed 

 in a prepuce, which is a bag with a small opening into it, so that the 

 clitoris cannot be pushed out : it adheres to this bag on one side near 

 its whole length, something like the tongue in the mouth. 



The common and proper vagina are of equal length. The uterus is 

 nearly as long as both : it then divides into the two horns, the left of 

 which has a little process or caecum, which I suppose is a lusus naturae. 

 The ovaria are enclosed in a capsule ; the orifice of which is very small, 



1 [Hunt. Prep. No. 763. This has been entered in the Hunterian MS. Catalogue as 

 ' rectum,' and is so called in my ' Physiological Catalogue,' 4to, vol. i. p. 226. Home 

 Comp. Anat. i. p. 432.] 



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