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3. Notes of the Dissection of a Female Beaver*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

John Cleland
Affiliation:
Demonstrator of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh.
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Extract

In this paper the writer directed attention to the remarkably developed parotid glands of the beaver, which form a single large mass covering the whole front and sides of the neck, and cannot be separated from one another. He showed how the apparent disproportion between the anterior and posterior extremities of the beaver was increased by the way in which the parietes of the abdomen overhung the thighs, and the margin of the panniculus carnosus passed over the knees so as to include them in the muscular investment that enveloped the trunk.

Type
Proceedings 1859-60
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1862

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* Published in full, with a plate, in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, New Series, vol. xii. p. 14.