18 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANATOMICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL 



ORDINARY MEETING. 

 15TH DECEMBER, 1906. 



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 Messrs. 

 A. M. Brown, N. J. Calder, A. M, Geddes, R. Richards and D. H. W. 

 Williamson. 



Mr. Alexander Low, M.B., described the contents of a short cist 

 recovered on the farm of Mains of Leslie, parish of Premnay, and 

 presented to the Anatomical Museum by C. E. N. Leith-Hay, Esq., 

 of Rannes and Leith Hall (see p. 54). 



EECOED OF ANATOMICAL VAEIATIONS. 



Date of observation, November, 1906. 

 Sex, Female. 



Abnormal muscular slip in forearm. 



From the middle of the flexor longus pollicis on its ulnar side 

 there arises a fleshy slip. This slip becomes tendinous about two 

 inches above the anterior annular ligament and joins the tendon of 

 the deep flexor of the index finger beneath that ligament. 



(Signature of observer) A. M. BROWN. 



Date of observation, November, 1906. 

 Sex, Male. 



Absence of depressors of liyoid bone. 



The sterno-hyoid muscles on both sides are absent. They are 

 represented by a few fibres that run upwards from the back of the 



