190 INSECTIVORA. 



It has a thymus when old ; two vena? cava? superiores ; two azygos 

 veins. 



The liver is as in other animals, and consists of four lobes, or rather 

 five. The gall-bladder is pretty large, and but little attached to the 

 middle lobe, so that it is pretty round. The gall is of a fine trans- 

 parent green : there are no hepatic ducts entering the ductus communis 

 between the cystic duct and the duodenum. The pancreas is as in 

 other animals, only the lower end of the duodenal pancreas passes 

 below the duodenum, and hangs loose. 



The left kidney is lower than the right, and is like a dog's in shape, 

 and is very loose. 



The Male Organs of Generation 1 . — On cutting through the skin on 

 the os pubis, there is a panniculus carnosus lining it, which arises from 

 the upper part of the tail, passing down on each side of the tail and 

 anus, then passing over the ossa pubis, becoming broader by degrees, 

 and then lost in the skin of the abdomen. The use of this muscle 

 would appear to be to draw the prepuce back during erections of the 

 penis, which would in some degree denude the penis. 



On removing this panniculus, there are two round and flat bodies 

 that are situated on the outside of the pubis, ischium, and the flexor 

 muscles of the thigh. These two bodies I took to be the testicles when 

 I first felt them through the skin. Each of these has a duct going 

 from them round the ischium, or rather round the erectores penis 

 towards the anus. These bodies seem to be a heap of tubes coiled 

 together, and these ducts open into the bottom of the foramen csecum, 

 laterally. 



On cutting into the abdomen, we see the urinary bladder, part of 

 which is in the middle way between the pubis and sternum, not at all 

 in the pelvis (but not so large in a second that I examined), and 

 between the bladder and pubis, immediately in contact with the abdo- 

 minal muscles, is the prostate gland, before and on the sides of the neck 

 of the bladder ; it is divided into two by a fissure which has a ligament 

 uniting it to the abdominal muscles like the Fallopian ligament of the 

 liver : the prostate, thus, lies on the bladder in the same manner as the 

 liver lies on the other viscera. 



On each side of this prostatic gland are situated the testicles, which 

 are very large, much in the same manner as they are in the foetus 

 before they pass out of the abdomen, having that ligamentous part 

 attaching them to the [abdominal] rings; which ligament passes 

 through the rings to the os pubis ; these attachments are hollow, the 



1 [Hunt. Prep. No. 2512.] 



