SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN. 95 



ORDINARY MEETING. 

 22ND FEBRUARY, 1908. 



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 Miss 

 M. K. Moir and Messrs. N. J. Calder, H. T. Finlayson, W. P. Hogg 

 and W. G. Thomson. 



Thereafter Mr. Alex. Low, M.B., described the process of 

 reconstruction, by Born's wax plate method, of a human embryo of 

 13-14 mesodermic somites. The anatomy of the embryo was 

 briefly referred to and the completed wax models of the embryo were 

 demonstrated. 



EECOED OF ANATOMICAL VABIATIONS. 

 Date of observation, February, 1908. 



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Sex, Male. 



Abnormal arrangement of the arteries on the dorsum of the foot, 

 The anterior tibial artery, in this dissection, divides under the 

 anterior annular ligament into two terminal branches. The branch 

 that is the real continuation of the artery follows the normal course of 

 the dorsalis pedis artery, but is small and gives off no tarsal or 

 metatarsal branches. The other terminal branch is large, curves 

 outwards and eventually ends at the posterior part of the second 

 intermetatarsal space by receiving a posterior perforating branch from 

 the deep plantar arch and giving off an interosseous artery for the 



