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So far as our researches have enabled us to ascertain, the following is the first micro- 

 scopic examination and description of these hairs: 



No. 1 Examination and Description of Hairs from Ovaries. Name and description of 

 the person from whom it came unknown. Specimen presented by Prof. Paul B. Goddard, 

 M. D., of Philadelphia. (See fijr. 33.) 



Length, 3g inches; shape, cylindroidal ; diameter, ^| T by ? | of an inch; color, pale 

 reddish-brown; dark brown; not lustrous; direction, slightly flowing, with a tendency to 

 a stiff curl; inclination, unknown; ductility, with 870 grains one inch stretched -fa of an 

 inch, elasticity entire; tenacity, broke with 1,000 grains; button, a mere swelling of the 

 posterior extremity of the shaft; sheath, length, yL of an inch; diameter, J ff ; white, 

 onaque, investing closely the shaft ; follicle, had none to examine; shaft, partially injured in 

 places, as if it had been acted upon by some corrosive substance; intermediate fibres, 

 (exhibited when a hair is crushed,) coarse; one of them measured y^- 1 ^ pirt of an inch; 

 a darker colored hair, when crushed, showed a light-colored cortex and white intermediate 

 fibres; apex, rounded; none furcated; disks, uniformly colored; no central canal dis- 

 covered. 



In general outward appearance this hair resembles that of the head of the oval-haired species ; 

 but it differs from it in its deficiency of ductility, in its cylindroidal shape, in its being injured 

 in places in the shaft as if corroded, in the coloring matter being in the cortex, and in the 

 absence of a central canal. 



No. 2. Examination and Description of Hair of an Ovary. Name and description of 

 the person from whom it came unknown. Specimen presented by Prof. Homer, M. D , 

 of Philadelphia. 



Length, from 1| to 2 inches; shape, cylindrical ; diameters, one ^4 7 , another ^| T , and 

 another still, r ,> T of an inch; color, generally very light, no lustre; direction, crisped; 

 inclination, unknown; ductility, with 190 grains stretched ^ of an inch, elasticity entire; 

 tenacity, broke with 893 grains; button, sheath, and follicle, had none to examine; shaft, 

 deficient in uniformity, thinly covered in places by a white opaque substance ; scales on 

 the cortex very apparent, rounded and adhereing closely to the shaft ; one hair, which 

 was of rather a darker shade than the rest, notched as if it was corroded. Upon being 

 rolled between two pieces of glass the scales disengage; being crushed, the cortex splits 

 transversely, exhibiting the intermediate fibres, which are white and fine; one of them 

 measures the ^QTT P art f an " lcn 5 a pex, sometimes pointed, and at others abrupt, none 

 furcated; disk, uniform color ; no central canal perceptible. The general appearance is 

 that of the hair of the pubis of the oval-haired species. With this lock was a mass of 

 tangled fibres of ihe size of ^ of an inch, so much interlaced as to render it impossible to 

 ascertain the length, but with various ^diameters from y^g-g- to ^oW f an i ncn > some flat 

 and others rounded, all white and opaque but one, and that is blue.* The peculiarities of 

 this hair are its deficiency in ductility, its cylindrical shape, its notched appearance, its 

 deficiency in a central canal, and the blue color of the fibre above mentioned. 



We found a similar colored fibre among the hah 1 of John Dennis Gnrwoorl. which grew after death. 



