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Show 1866.] DR. E. CRISP ON THE ANATOMY OF THE GIRAFFE. 565 oblong glands, which terminate in open mouths something like the proyentricular glands of a bird. The mouths of but few of them are distinguishable; but the preparation has been in spirits for two years, and its normal structure is not so readily made out. I speak therefore with some amount of hesitation. The three agminated patches in the small intestines, alluded to in my former paper (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 269), consist of large villi (as seen in the woodcut fig. 1, magnified 20 diameters). Fig. 2 represents the duodenal glands and crypts of about half their natural size ; a small portion of the duodenum only is depicted. The size of the crypts has been diminished by immersion in spirits. Fig. 1. Fig. 2. It will be interesting to compare these with the same structures in an adult animal. Illiger and Swainson placed the Giraffe with the Camels; and these glands, crypts, and villi bear some resemblance to those found in the Camelidar; but the blood-corpuscles of the Camel and many parts of its anatomy differ widely from those of the Giraffe. As I have mentioned in a former paper, a large agminated caecal gland is seen in the same situation in many animals; that in the Nylgau (Antilope picta) and that in the Jaguar (Felis onca) are very remarkable. Its use remains to be determined by future investigators ; but it is probably a secretory gland adapted for the special requirements of this part of the tube. It is worthy of note that in the mother of this Giraffe I found several Echinococci in the spleen ; in this Giraffe the liver contained one of these parasitic cysts. Not wishing to interfere with the province of Dr. Murie, I leave other matters to his description. As this animal was in good health when suffocated I took a piece of its flesh and had it cooked in two pieces,-the one as a chop, the other, after being prepared with treacle, nitre, and spice, like the so-called Dutch or " hung beef." The fresh-cooked meat had rather a musky smell, and the flavour was not so good as that of beef or mutton ; the spiced meat was excellent, and equal to that of any beef prepared in the way I have described. I mention this for two reasons,-first, because the Giraffe is not an unlikely animal to be kept hereafter during the summer in some of our English parks; and secondly, because Dr. Livingstone |