SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN. 17 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



IOTH DECEMBER, 1904. 



Professor R. W. REID, M.D., F.R.C.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 



Anatomical variations found in the course of practical work in 

 the Anatomy Department of the University were described by several 

 members of the Society. 



Professor Reid showed and explained a series of models of 

 the brain, ear and facial muscles which had been presented by Mr. 

 Thomas Bryant, Consulting Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, London, to the 

 Anatomical Museum. The models were made by the late Joseph 

 Towne, for fifty-three years modeller to Guy's Hospital, and were the 

 first attempts in this country in modelling parts of the human body 

 in wax. They were mostly made from dissections by the late Mr. 

 Hilton. Professor Reid also gave a short account of the life of 

 Joseph Towne. 



EECOED OF ANATOMICAL VAEIATIONS. 



Date of observation, November, 1904. 

 Sex, Female. 



Additional head to 6-iceps flexor cubiti (left). 



The usual two heads were normal, while the additional head 

 formed a strong fasciculus, posterior to the other two, and arose about 

 the level of the insertion of the coraco-brachialis, % inch to its outer 

 side. The external cutaneous nerve did not pierce the coraco- 



