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in order to expose the ovaries. Typical ovaries were, however, 

 not found. Instead, we encountered near the place where the 

 ovaries usually are situated, but perhaps a little farther down, 

 somewhat large and round, rather soft bodies, each about the 

 size of a pea, surrounded by much fat tissue. On cutting through 

 the center the color was found to be slightly yellowish-brown. 

 From here some fibrous bands extended downward in the direc- 

 tion in which the uterine horns are usually situated. An organ 

 that resembled the uterus was not found. The vagina was also 

 lacking. Neither was a penis, vas deferens or a descended 

 testicle visible. 



The brownish red bodies as well as pieces of the fibrous bands 

 were fixed in Zenker. Both of the bodies were completely cut 

 into serial sections. Tissue from the places where the mammary 

 glands are usually situated was also fixed and sectioned. 



Microscopic examination : 



i. The round bodies situated below the kidney were seen, 

 microscopically, to consist of testicle tissue in which there was 

 an extraordinarily marked development of interstitial gland. 

 The testicle tubules were lined by one layer of epithelial cells, the 

 outline of which was not very definite. Towards the center of 

 the tubules they formed a network of fine fibrils ; a sharply defined 

 lumen therefore did not exist in the tubules. The cells had either 

 a cuboidal or cylindrical form as far as their indefinite outline 

 permitted of such a characterization. In some cases the whole 

 protoplasm of the cell was drawn towards the center of the tubule 

 in a tail-like structure. The nucleus was situated in the center of 

 the cell and was very characteristic. It represented a clear vesicle 

 in which one deep-staining large nucleolus was visible. Occasion- 

 ally the nucleolus divided into two parts. In various places the 

 tubules were lined with several cell rows. Sometimes the cyto- 

 plasm and the nucleus of one cell swelled, and such a cell en- 

 croached upon the territory of the neighboring cell, lying more to- 

 wards the center of the tubule, pressing against it; and thus one cell 

 surrounded, crescent like, the neighboring cell. Occasionally some 

 cells degenerated, the nucleolus persisting longest, while the rest 

 of the nucleus had already disappeared. Mitoses were seen quite 

 frequently in these tubule cells and monasters as well as diasters 



