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tisual, articulated with the triangular cartilage, the other formed a 

 regular ball-and-socket joint with the styloid process, which is com- 

 pletely detached, and which bears a cartilage-clad concave surface 

 above. This little joint had a separate synovial cavity, surrounded by 

 a capsule. The ulnar attachment of the triangular cartilage was 

 double, the upper part being attached to the non-articular sulcus 

 which crosses the lower face of the ulna, and the lower to the radial 

 face of the separate os styloideum. This variety is rare. The limb 

 showed no sign of having been the subject of accident or disease. 



5. The Lacrymal Bone is the subject of an exhaustive monograph 

 by Professor LeDouble, of Tours, in the Bihliogi-ajjMe Anatomique, 

 vol. viii. pp. 100-192. The work is of the same laborious and 

 thorough character as the author's now classical work on Muscular 

 Varieties. The references to the literature are accurate and practically 

 complete. As far as I know, only one paper is unnoticed — viz., the 

 description of a case of the excessively rare lacrymo-jugal suture, given, 

 with a figure, in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 1874, 

 vol. ii. series ii. p. 58. I delete the h in the name of the bone on 

 Professor Skeat's authority. 



6. Complete Absence of the Vermiform Appendix is described 

 and figured by Piquard in the Btdletin of the Paris Anatomical Society, 

 1900, p. 602. The case is of interest in connection with Dr Berry's 

 important paper in this Joiirncd. 



7. A Pelvic Kidney was found on the left side of a male subject in 

 the Cambridge dissecting-room. It lay behind the rectal end of the 

 sigmoid colon and upper end of the rectum. These lifted the peri- 

 toneum off its surface, as the two layers of the sigmoid mesocolon 

 were here widely apart ; its upper border overlapped the left common 

 iliac artery and the beginning of the left external iliac, while its lower 

 edge was on the level of the junction of the 2nd and 3rd sacral verte- 

 brae. Its arteries were four : one from the left side of the aorta, 1 cm. 

 above the bifurcation ; one from the front of the aorta, immediately 

 above the bifurcation ; two from the right common iliac, both arising 

 from the upper third of that vessel. Its chief vein joined the right 

 common iliac vein 2 cm. before the origin of the inferior vena cava ; 

 a second vein crosses the right common iliac artery close to its origin, 

 and enters the front of the vena cava. The pelvis is on the anterior 

 surface, and the ureter descends from it as usual, lying at its origin in 

 front of the lower edge of the organ. This kidney was smaller than 

 usual, and sho,^ed signs of cystic disease. 



8. Cases of Anomalous Inferior Vena Cava, which to some 

 extent complement Professor Dwight's systematic survey of these 

 variations, have occurred from time to time in the Cambridge dissecting- 

 room, and are recorded in the manuscript " Anomaly Book " kept 

 there. These are : — 



I. Double inferior vena cava as far as the left renal, at which part 



