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owing to the smallness of the basi-occipital and basi-sphenoid, 

 they were nearer together than normal. 



On removing tlie mucous membrane from the hard palate 

 the two superior maxillary bones were found to be firmly 

 united in the mesial plane, there being no indications of 

 intermaxillary bones. The teeth, which have erupted, were 

 three in number, one central and two lateral. The central 

 tooth was not embedded in the superior maxillary bone, but 

 in the mucous membrane in front of this bone. The two 

 lateral teeth had the appearance of canines. The horizontal 

 plates of the palate bones met in the middle line, and the 

 soft palate was perfectly normal ; on reflecting the latter to 

 expose the upper part of the pharynx, this cavity was found 

 to be normal in many respects, the Eustachian orifices and 

 the fossae behind them having their normal position and 

 relations. It was found, however, that there were no indica- 

 tions of openings in the anterior wall. On reflecting the 

 mucous membrane from this anterior wall, the pharynx 

 was seen to be bounded in front by bone, derived from 

 the vertical plates of the palate bone and from the internal 

 pterygoid plates. The single orbital cavity was single, 

 and was limited above by the frontal bone, below by the 

 superior maxillary and malar bones, and externally by the 

 malars and the great wings of the sphenoid. The posterior 

 part of the floor was deeply grooved, and at the anterior 

 part there were no indications of nasal processes. No trace 

 of the canal of Eathke, described by Hannover as a small 

 foramen persisting in front of the quadrilateral plate of the 

 sphenoid, between the dome of the pharynx and the cranial 

 cavity in the Sella Turcica, could be found. 



Through the kindness of Professor Sir William Turner (our 

 President) and Mr Simpson, the assistant curator of the 

 University Museum, we are also able to place before the 

 Society a number of other specimens of cyclopean monsters : 

 (c.) A pig, very similar to the one dissected, but somewhat 

 smaller ; the proboscis is slightly longer in proportion to the 

 size of the head, the eye is perfectly single, and there are no 

 teeth, (cl) A second pig, also similar, with the exception 

 that the cornea is divided into two by a band of sclerotic 



