76 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANATOMICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL 



ORDINARY MEETING. 

 HTH DECEMBER, 1907. 



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

 in the Chair. 







The minutes of last meeting were read and approved. 



Anatomical variations were described and discussed by Messrs. C. 

 dyne, W. C. Milne, R. R. M. Porter, J. Ritchie, W. G. Thomson and 

 W. M. Tough. 



Mr. N. J. Calder, M.A., gave a description of an imbecile's brain 

 which was presented to the Anatomical Museum by W. Sim Garden, 

 M.B., Menston, Leeds. Thereafter Professor Reid compared this 

 brain with that of a congenital idiot who had not been possessed of 

 any reasoning power or of any of the finer intellectual faculties. 

 This brain is described and figured in the Proceedings of the Society 

 for 1900-2. 



EECOED OF ANATOMICAL VABIATIONS. 



Date of observation, November, 1907. 

 Sex, Male. 



Lateral branch from the internal mammary artery (right). 



This branch, which is of a large size, is given off an inch from the 

 origin of the internal mammary artery. The pleura is behind it and 

 it is close up to the first rib. It passes downwards and outwards 

 across the first and second and part of the third intercostal spaces 

 about an inch to the outside of the costal cartilages. It anastomoses 

 with the intercostal arteries in the spaces over which it passes. Ac- 



