92 CARNIVORA. 



the pancreatic duct into the intestine. [Supplemental Note.] (Not in 

 all; for in one bear they entered separately, and by two distinct ducts.) 



The pancreas lies in the curve of the stomach and duodenum, having 

 two arms transverse and descending : the transverse one passes to the 

 left behind the stomach, and Before the vessels of the mesentery ; the 

 other, or descending arm, passes in the hollow curve of the duodenum, 

 the extremity of which passes up along with that gut as it is approach- 

 ing to the left side, and joins the transverse one on the left of the 

 mesenteric vessels. There are two ducts which communicate with one 

 another in the substance of the gland 1 . 



The kidneys are conglomerated, or made up of smaller kidneys, each 

 of which terminates in a point which is a mamma, and is enclosed by an 

 infundibulum 2 . 



They have no vesiculse seminales : at the entrance of the vasa defe- 

 rentia there is a glandular or muscular body 3 which these ducts pass 

 through before they enter the urethra. The urethra is nearly as in the 

 human, only the membranous part is longer. The penis is cavernous 

 at the beginning, as in a dog, but has a bone at the anterior end, about 

 5 or 6 inches long, on which bone is placed the glans. 



The thoracic duct had a coagulum in it as low as the lower part of 

 the thorax, and this coagulum was tinged of a red colour ; therefore it 

 is reasonable to suppose that there were veins that had entered this duct 

 lower than the thorax. 



Mr. Yarelst told me, at Mr. "Walsh's 1 , that there were black bears in 

 India, but they were small. He had seen several of them. 



[Large Black Bear (Ursus labiatus, Blainv.), which came (as it 

 was said) from Patna (Upper province of Bengal) .] 



It had more of the Russian bear in it than of the American, especially 

 in the hair : however, this was even longer than that of the Russian, 



1 [Hunt. Prep. No. 781.] 



2 [Hunt. Prep. Nos. 1259 — 1260 ( Ursus arctos), 1261 ( Ursus americanus) : the 

 suprarenal body of Ursus arctos is No. 1283.] 



3 [It is an elliptical dilatation of the vas deferens itself, the parietes of which are 

 thickened, and have small tortuous sinuses or cells developed in them ; the ducts are 

 very wide, which leave these glandular dilatations, and converge to open on the veru- 

 montanum. Each dilatation is distinct both as to its cavity and as to its substance ; 

 they are only united by celhdar dense tissue. There is a thin layer of a glandular 

 substance surrounding the beginning of the urethra, which represents the prostate.] 



* [Probably John Walsh, Esq., F.R.S., residing in 1772 at Chesterfield Street, 

 London ; author of the observations on the electric property of the Torpedo, prefixed 

 to Hunter's Paper on the electric organs in the ' Philosophical Transactions,' 

 vol. lxiii. 1773.] 



