138 INSECTIVORA. 



Is the want of the ossa pubis for the easier passage of the animal 

 through the earth ? 



The liver is divided into four lobes besides the lobulus Spigelii ; and 

 the gall-bladder lies in a sulcus of the third lobe from the right side. 



The spleen is very thin and pretty long ; it was a good deal the 

 colour of the pancreas. 



The eyes are very little, not so big as a common pin's head. 



The testicles are very large in the breeding season, as big as those of 

 a new-born child : they lie almost in the place of the ossa pubis and 

 muscles of the thigh, within the cavity of the abdomen, for it extends 

 so low. There were no vesiculae seminales that I could find. The 

 lower end of the epididymis passes downwards and out of the belly at 

 what may be called the abdominal ring, and then turns up and joins 

 the side of the bladder. Their passage is a muscular bag [cremaster], 

 and is not an inch in length ; it can be inverted by pulling the testis 

 up the belly, as in the foetus. The penis is pretty long, and the .crura 

 are attached to two knobs which may be called ischia. The prepuce is 

 inverted backward, and is pretty prominent, by which means they are 

 retromingent. 



There are two glands [Cowper's], one on each side of the anus, that 

 send small ducts round the crura, and seem to enter the bulb of the 

 urethra. If I remember, the hedge-hog has the same. 



The bladder would seem to be two bags, viz. the common bladder, 

 and another where the vesiculae seminales should be ; but this seems to 

 be glandular. 



On the anterior part of the bladder lies the prostate gland ; it con- 

 sists of a body made up of convoluted tubes, the ducts of which enter 

 the urethra near to the beginning of that canal. These tubes are 

 filled with a white mucus. This gland is very small in the winter, 

 when all copulation is over, but in March they become large, and are 

 full of the above described mucus. 



Female parts. — There is no common vagina : the vagina is very long, 

 and runs in a serpentine course forwards and backwards. The two 

 uterine horns go off from the vagina nearly at right angles : they are 

 not long : the Fallopian tubes run on a capsula ovarii. The capsula 

 ovarii is almost a complete capside. The ovarium is a cluster of rounded 

 bodies. 



The urethra opens by a projecting body similar to the prepuce in the 

 male. There is very little fat on a mole ; none on the abdomen. 



The claws of the fore feet must grow fast. 



