KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 49. N:0 7. 



15 



a level with the five posterior palatal folds they measure 2 cm. in length but decrease 

 in size and number opposite the beginning of the molar series. 



The anterior portion of the tongue is twice as ]ong as the posterior and very 

 densely covered with conical papillae. At the edge of the lower side of the anterior 

 portion as well as on the lateral surfaces of the basal portion papillce fungiformes 

 are seen. 



Fig. 2. Palate of (Yiraffa Camelopardalis reticulata. 



The dimensions of the liver of this Giraffe-bull were 50 X 32 to 28 cm. Lobus 

 caudatus was rather small but overlaps the kidney. No gall-bladder was developed. 



The spleen was rather elongate, very different in shape from the broadly oval 

 spleen of a Giraffe which I have had the opportunity of examining in the Zoological 

 Museum of Upsala and which I always have considered as normal and therefore used 

 for comparison in my various papers on Ruminants. 1 The length of the spleen of 



1 f. i. »On the soft Anatomy of the Muskox (Oribos moschatus), Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1900. 



