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loose intestines. The ileum passes towards the left, just below the 

 stomach, similar to the colon in many animals, and ends in the colon. 

 There are two caeca, as in birds. The colon and rectum are but short, and 

 are one continued gut passing down the left to the anus. 



The liver has three lobes ; the middle lobe is attached to the liga- 

 ment ; there is no Spigelian lobe. The gall-bladder is attached to the 

 ligamentum teres. 



The pancreas is a long small body crossing the stomach obliquely .; its 

 end or tail is attached to the epiploon, and to the transverse arch of 

 the stomach about midway between the two ends of the stomach ; 

 from thence it crosses the stomach on its posterior surface towards the 

 small curve, and then to the right to the curve of duodenum. 



The spleen lies along the great curve of the stomach, just along the 

 attachment of the epiploon ; its right end is very near the pylorus. The 

 kidneys are conglobate. The bladder is pendulous. The testicles are 

 within the abdomen, and are fixed, not moveable as in the mouse, &C 1 



[The Short-tailed Manis. (Manis pentadadyla, Linn.; 

 Manis brachyura, Erxl.)] 



Pangolin from Sumatra. (The entrails of one brought home bv 

 Mr. Griffiths 2 .) 



This animal has no teeth, nor can it be said to have gums ; not even 

 like the mouth of a young animal not near cutting its teeth. 



The oesophagus is not small. The stomach appears to be wholly 

 lined with a cuticle; it is small, is thick in its coats, and is very 

 much bent upon the great end. In the small end and just at the 

 pylorus, there is a pyriform protuberance, with its thickest projecting 

 end towards the stomach 3 . 



1 [The head, with the tongue of this animal, is the Hunt. Prep. No. 1502.] 



2 [J. Griffiths, Esq., author of a paper " On a rare species of Worm-shells discovered 

 at an island lying off the north-west coast of the Island of Sumatra," in the ' Philo- 

 sophical Transactions,' vol. xcvi. p. 296. The following note is appended to the pre- 

 sent MS. : — 



" Mr. Griffiths presents his compliments to Mr. Hunter, and begs leave to acquaint 

 him that the entrails, &c. of the Pangolin, or Ant-eater, from Sumatra, whieh he 

 brought home for his inspection, have been entirely spoilt from their long detention 

 at the India House. Mr. Griffiths takes the liberty to send them, that Mr. Hunter 

 may see the state they are in, and will do himself the honour to call in a few days 

 with the aquatic snail that he mentioned when he had the pleasure to accompany 

 Mr. Broff to breakfast in Leicester Square. — Queen Square, No. 6, Thursday 

 morning."] 



3 [Hunt. Prep. Nos. 542, 513. The gastric gland, situated at the middle of the 

 great curvature, is shown in the preparation added by me to the Hunterian Series, 

 No. 590 c] 



