58 Proceedings of Pioyal Society of Edinlurgli. [sess. 
The Great Omentum formed a very noticeable object. It was not 
attached to the left border of the 1st compartment, but depended 
from its right border, and was prolonged on to the left border of 
the 2nd compartment, and thence backwards to its posterior border, 
from which it was continued as far as the 4th compartment, but did 
not reach the 5th compartment. The great blood-vessels ran along 
the line of attachment of the omentum to the different compart- 
ments. The ventral surface of the stomach was covered by peri- 
toneum, but the dorsal surface was in a large measure without a 
serous covering, and the pancreas was in apposition with the dorsal 
surface of the 4th compartment and the dilatation next to it. 
The Spleen was attached by a short gastro-splenic omentum 
to the blind end of the 1st compartment, and it was curved so as 
to be adapted to it. The length of the spleen along the convexity 
was 19 inches; its greatest breadth was 4 inches at its middle, 
from which it tapered to each end. The Intestine was measured 
after its removal from the cavity of the abdomen, and its length may 
be stated approximately as about 140 feet. 
As the animal was an adult female, I took the opportunity of 
examining the Uterus and its appendages. The vagina admitted 
the closed hand and forearm. Its mucous membrane was folded 
both longitudinally and transversely ; three transverse folds were of 
large size, and the highest apparently represented the boundary of 
an os uteri. The uterus possessed a body which divided into two 
cornua. The corpus uteri was 29 inches long and from 5 to 7 
inches broad. Its mucous membrane was folded longitudinally, and 
the biggest folds projected for nearly 2 inches. Twelve of these 
folds were counted in the circumference of one part of the canal, but 
in proximity to the os they increased in number and diminished 
in depth. A well-defined septum, the lower edge of which was free 
and sickle-shaped, separated from each other the openings of the 
two cornua where they arose from the corpus uteri. The uterine 
cornua measured each 29 inches along the curvature, and were from 
4 to 5 inches broad. Each Fallopian tube was 18 inches long, 
{Calanus finmarcMcus) ; he refers also to observations by Captain Bull, who 
found that the stomach contained the so-called ^ ^ Ih'il ” EuiJhcmsia inermis, 
a Thysanopod Crustacean about inch long, which forms also the chief 
oi Baloinoptcra sihlaldii. — Proc. Zool. Soc., London, April 20, 
1886. 
