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Irregularities of this kind will not be governed by a law ; and we 

 believe that at least minor deviations will be found on dissection, 

 that were not suspected from the appearance of the animal while 

 living. For a general account of free martins, we refer to page 65 

 of the first volume ; and proceed here to describe Mr. Prentiss's 

 animal, which was slaughtered September 2d, and which we were 

 permitted to examine in company with Mr. Howard of the Cultivator. 



Fig. 1. 



Figure 1, is a portrait of the head of the animal : it will be noticed that 

 it resembles a steer of the same age. 



Dissection. The parts disclosed on dissection, were about one 

 fourth the ordinary size of those in the well-formed female. The 

 ovaries were white and fatty : an incision exhibited imperfectly their 

 glandular structure. Two small round bodies, similar to graafian 

 vesicles, were seen in the body of the right ovary. We do not say 

 that these were perfect graafian vesicles, but only that there were 

 two round reddish bodies of the size of a small pea, and readily 

 distinguishable from the enveloping tissue. In one side of the animal, 

 the ovary was kidney-shaped, and an inch and a half in length ; in 

 the other side, there were two ovary-like bodies of about the same 

 size and form. The fallopian tubes were obscure, and appeared more 

 like ligamentous bodies than usual. The uterus did not appear to 

 be one continuous body. At the point which answers to the fundus, 

 or at the insertion of the horns of the uterus, were two oval or rather 

 cylindrical bodies an inch and a half in length, which came in con- 

 tact at the bifurcation : these were partially interrupted as they 

 passed down to form the body of the uterus, but assumed their size 



