84 CARNIVORA. 



The liver is divided into five lobes, including that of Spigelius : the 

 second from the left is the largest, having the ligamentum rotundum 

 entering a pretty deep sulcus and the gall-bladder lying in another 

 deep sulcus. The gall-bladder can be hid in this sulcus: it would 

 appear as if bent over a part of this sulcus. 



The spleen is long, and lies in a doubling of the epiploon. The 

 pancreas lies in the doubling of the epiploon, almost reaching the spleen 

 on the left, and on the right it joins the mesoduodenum and passes 

 downwards in the curvature of that gut ; then makes a turn up by the 

 vena cava on its right side, when it becomes small, ending in a point. 

 The kidneys are conglobate, having one long mammilla or ridge, with 

 lateral ridges going from it into lateral infundibula. 



As the chest is long, the superior and inferior vense cavse are long. 

 The lungs on the right are divided into three lobes, with one going 

 behind the vena cava : on the left they are divided into two lobes. The 

 oesophagus is wide, corresponding to the teeth. 



The hair is very much that of the black bear. 



The common vagina is smooth. The os tincse is projecting, so that 

 air does not enter it from the vagina: the uterus divides into two horns. 

 The ovaria appeared as if made up of small glands covered by a smooth 

 coat : when cut into, a great deal of mucus came out : the capsula 

 ovaria had a very small opening. The above parts were very like the 

 cat's in form. The clitoris has a cartilage in it : the preputium clitoridis 

 is pretty deep on the under side, or what would be the upper in the 

 human subject. 



[Family PROCYONIDjE.] 



The Racoon [Procyon Lotor, Storr; Ursus Lotor, Linn. 1 ]. 



It walks on the whole carpus and metacarpus, and on the toes or 

 fingers of the fore-foot ; and the same of the tarsus and metatarsus in 

 the hind-foot ; and all this part is thick, lined with fat, and is bare, 

 having no hair. The last phalanx of the toes is kept up by an elastic 

 ligament, which is fixed to the root of the second phalanx ; and is at 

 the other end fixed to the upper part of the last, where the nail is ; but 

 this is not nearly so strong as in the cat. 



It has no clavicle, so that that part of the deltoid, which arises from 

 the clavicle in those which have that bone, arises from the vertebrae of 

 the neck in this animal. It has two sorts of hair ; one is short, thick 



1 [The skeleton of the male racoon here described is No. 4051, Osteol. Series: 

 that of the female is Nos. 4053—4055.] 



