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Show •J MR. W. N. PARKER ON THE INDIAN TAPIR. 769 are distributed mainly over the anterior 2\ inches and the posterior part, there being a space of about 2 inches between these regions which is destitute of them ; there is also an irregular row along each edge. There is a distinct Mayer's organ (papilla foliata) on each side, about half an inch long, on the upper edge of the root of the tongue. The frenum was attached about 3 inches from the apex. The salivary glands resemble those of the Horse in every important particular. The parotids are large, extending from the front part of the hinge of the lower jaw to the paroccipital process. Steno's duct passes down along the lower edge of the masseter, and then runs up again so as to open by an aperture with well-marked lips about | inch from the upper molar teeth, opposite the line of apposition of the second and third molars. The submaxillary and sublingual glands were also large, their ducts opening in the usual position. Upper and lower molar glands were present; and there was a large palatal gland over the velum palati. The tonsils did not present any definite elevations, the glands composing them being scattered. Each thyroid was about 1 inch long, and was connected with its fellow by a bridge § of an inch in width. Poelman figures an external view of the stomach, which, however, does not represent it quite accurately. I therefore give another figure (fig. 1), showing its internal structure. The stomach, laid open, from the posterior side, one fourth nat. size. c.p.f cardio-pyloric fold ; ms.ep, oesophageal epithelium ; b.d, bile-duct: p. d, pancreatic duct; v. c, valvuli conniventes. The stomach measured about two feet along the greater curvature. There is a marked constriction between the entrance of the oesophagus and the duodenum, about halfway between the two, and not close to the duodenum as in Poelman's figure, in which 51* |