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one led him to infer that it might be a young adult male ; in the 

 undoubted female skull, which was of a very old anunal, the sutures 

 were obliterated, but in the other the intermaxillary bone was still 

 separated. The pelvis was that of a female, the bones being lighter, 

 smaller, and with a less pelvic cavity than that of the male ; the for- 

 ward curvature of the thigh bones was very well marked ; the ster- 

 num was composed of three separate pieces and two terminal ones 

 united together, not consolidated in a single piece as in the chimpan- 

 zee and in man ; the proportions of the scapula are much more 

 human than in the male ; the fore-arm is shorter than the humerus, 

 and in this respect the gorilla comes the nearest to man of the 

 anthropoid apes ; in the length of some of the lower cervical pro- 

 cesses, on the contrary, it is less human than the chimpanzee. 



Dr. J. C. White exhibited some small worms which had been dis- 

 charged from a tumor on the upper eyelid of a girl, to the number of 

 twenty-three. 



They come near, if they do not belong to the genus Agamonemaj 

 which has been found in fishes, but never before in the human sub- 

 ject. 



Dr. John Green alluded to a microscopical examination which he 

 had made some years ago of the scales of Megaloj^s, in which he 

 found bone cells like those of ganoid scales ; he had since discovered 

 that the scales of Amia present the same structure. 



Captain Atwood presented a specimen of Aspidophorus, which he 

 had taken on the Newfoundland Grand Bank ; it is doubtless the 

 same species that is rarely found on this coast ; it is very common on 

 the Grand Bank. He also presented a large barnacle which he had 

 taken from the skin of a hump-backed whale, killed at Provincetown ; 

 it had attached to it another cirripod of the genus Coronula ; he 

 stated that the right whale has no barnacles attached to it, though 

 it has numerous small parasites. 



Dr. B. F. Shumard, of St. Louis, Mo., was elected a cor- 

 responding member ; and Messrs. James S. Melvin, of Bos- 

 ton, and William T. Brigham, of Cambridge, resident 

 members. 



