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sac, tuba, and uterus. Their names indicate their respective 
functions and we can here enter into no description of their inti- 
mate structure. 
In this connection should be noticed one point not a little re- 
markable, that is, a kind of hermaphroditism occurring in these 
animals, 
Meissner found individuals which had perfectly well-formed 
wholly male. Thus, there were the penises, with their protractor 
and retractor muscles, their sheaths—in fact, all the external or- 
gans of the male, yet in these individuals no trace of internal 
male or of external female organs could be found. Moreover 
these organs present precisely the same characteristics as though 
In proper males and females, and had also a functional activity,— 
eggs being found in the ovaries, &c. But this anomaly was not 
What we have before never clear! y understood, viz: how botryoidal 
ovular masses are formed, and moreover carries out the beat 
ftom the ovary is seen; it increases in size and its nucleus seg- 
Ments, several nuclei being formed. These nuclei approach the 
surface of this which we will now call the parent egg-cell; de- 
Verticula are given off from the cell-wall by a protrusion contain- 
* This Journal, Nov., 1853, p. 393. 
Skooxp Serres, Vol. XVIII, No. 52.—July, 1854. 
