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SELECTED ARITCLES. 
glandular-looking bodies, more numerous towards the side of 
the penis, (the posterior margin.) The flesh of the animal is 
dark red, and not of musky smell. Bladder very large, six 
inches long, two and a half broad. The liver flat, one lobe 
only, with a cleft in its margin at the attachment of the cen- 
tral ligament. Length of liver from left to right six and a 
half inches, from anterior to inferior aspect three and a half 
inches thick: at its extreme right, one inch; at its extreme 
left, half an inch. Gall-bladder, oval-shaped, pendulous from 
right half of liver, three inches long, two and a half in diame- 
ter. The gall duct penetrates the intestine two and a half 
inches from the pylorus of last or fourth stomach. Spleen 
thin, four inches long, two and a half broad. Kidneys unilobed, 
not sulcated on their surface, one and a half inch long, one 
inch broad. Stomachs four, in all respects ruminant. The 
large bag, or first stomach, mean length eighth inches, breadth 
six inches. Entire length of intestines forty feet. From the 
pylorus to caecum, twenty-eight feet; from caecum to vent, 
twelve feet. One caecum thirteen inches long, and two inches 
in diameter. The small intestines, which are round and 
thread-like, as well as the larger ones, are very thin-coated; 
average diameter of large ones near the rectum, two inches. 
Right lung, the larger, three-lobed; left lung three-lobed also, 
a small centre lobe of which lies below the apex of the heart. 
Heart three inches long, two in diameter. 
Another Musk Deer, May 28, 1835. 
No branches from the arch of the aorta. The ascending 
aorta one inch from the arch, gives oS, first, a common trunk, 
immediately divided into the left subclavian and left vertebral; 
second, two and a half inches higher: it (the aorta) divides 
into two branches, viz., the right cephalic, and the common 
trunk of the right subclavian and right vertebral. 
The os hyoides is formed of a small centre body and two 
horns, each of the two pieces having a posteriorly directed 
process for insertion into the head of the thyroid cartilage. 
