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Beparated by a slight constriction from the rest of the seminal tube ; 

 this is, as usual, single : it is semi-transparent, and gradually grows 

 smaller to its blind extremity, which is attached by cellular tissue to 

 the middle line of the ventral surface of the body, half-way between 

 the two extremities. The whole length of the seminal tube is ten 

 times that of the entire worm. 



" The female organs consist of the vulva, vagina, uterus bicornis, 

 and oviducts or ovarian tubes. 



"From the vulva, the situation of which has been already men- 

 tioned, the vagina is continued, at first wide, then narrower, and lastly 

 widening again to pass into the uterus: it exceeds an inch in length. 

 The two cornua of the uterus are each about \ a line in diameter, and 

 5 lines in length ; they diminish and are continued without any con- 

 striction into tne ovarian tubes ; these are of immense proportional 

 length, each exceeding, by 30 times, the length of the body ; their at- 

 tenuated extremities or beginnings are not attached to the parietes 

 of the body; although the coils of the oviducts appear at first sight 

 to be inextricably interwoven around the intestine, they in reality 

 cover it in aggregate folds, which are easily separated from the in- 

 testine, and unravelled/' 



Mr. Owen stated in conclusion, that preparations exhibiting the 

 male and female organs thus unfolded, with the digestive canal and 

 salivary apparatus, had been deposited in the Museum of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons. 



ROYAL IKISH ACADEMY. 



January 9. — Sir William Betham read a letter from the Baron 

 de Donop, of Saxe Meiningen, on the subject of the alleged dis- 

 covery of the MS. Translation of Sanconiathon's History of the 

 Phoenicians, by Philo Biblius. 



Sir William' Betham read a letter from Sir John Tobin, of Liver- 

 pool, respecting the cast-iron ring money found on board the wreck 

 of a vessel, and exhibited at the meeting of the Academy in Novem- 

 ber. The following is an extract: 



" On the subject of the schooner Magnificent, which was lost 

 somewhere near Cork some time since ; she was bound to the river 

 Bonney, or New Calabar, which is not far from the kingdom of Benin. 

 The trade to these rivers for palm oil and ivory, is cotton goods gun- 

 powder, muskets, and a great variety of other articles; and among 

 them maniilas, both of iron and a mixed metal of copper and brass, 

 which is the money that the people of Eboe and Brass Country, and 

 all the nations in that neighbourhood, go to market with. On Wed- 

 nesday next I will send you a manilla of each kind." 



Sir John Tobin states the price of the copper manillas to be 105/. 

 per ton, and that of the cast iron 22/. j the former passes, therefore, 

 for about five of the latter. They so perfectly resemble the Irish 

 antique as to be scarcely distinguishable except by the difference of 

 the material. 



Sir William Betham also read a letter from Captain Edward Jones 



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