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which was wide, had a length of 4% inches; its orifice penetrated 

 the walls of the vagina by the longitudinal fissure of the meatus uri- 

 narius (jn.u.), previously described. 



The representatives of Cowper's glands (C.g.), or those of Bartho- 

 linus, were two somewhat flattened oval glandular bodies, each about 

 1 inch long and -j^ of an inch broad, which were placed on either 

 side of the outer walls of the vagina, at the cul de sac, nearly opposite 

 where the urino-genital canal was given ofT; and these opened by 

 minute pin-hole-sized orifices or slits into the vagina. 



There was no trace of testicles. 



If we sum up the results of the anatomical examination, we find 

 that, of female organs, there were present : — Diminutive ovaries ; 

 impervious Fallopian tubes, and a normal uterus, connected with a 

 vagina which ended anomalously in a cul de sac within the pelvic 

 region, a natural vulva being thus wanting, whilst the neck of the 

 bladder opened into the vagina above the blind sac. 



On the contrary, simulating male organs were : — The long urino- 

 genital canal, derived from the lower wall of the vagina and termi- 

 nating between the udders, which tube, with its very rudimentary 

 corpus cavernosum and two long retractor muscles, bore tolerable 

 resemblance to an imperfect penis. 



In this manner, by balancing as it were the several organs, it 

 would appear that the animal was essentially a female, and in such 

 respects might come under Professor Simpson's* definition of "spu- 

 rious female hermaphroditic malformations." Nevertheless, com- 

 bining as it did some outward characters of male conformation, and 

 also the tendency in development of the urino-genital canal to form, 

 not merely a preternaturally enlarged normally placed clitoris, but 

 rather, in the advanced position, &c, of the genitals, an essentially 

 male type of intromittent organ, it might on such grounds be con- 

 sidered, if not a perfect example of, at least a curious approximation 

 to, the above author's subdivision of "True transverse hermaphro- 

 ditism" — "the external sexual organs male, internal female." But, 

 under whichever of the above heads of teratological classification 

 in strictness it ought to be included, the outer genital apparatus 

 blended together conditions appertaining to the masculine and femi- 

 nine types. 



By way of contrast, and the better to exemplify by comparison, I 

 shall briefly allude to two animals dissected by John Hunter, which 

 are among those which go under the name of " Free Martin." 



The first specimen, of which the preserved parts form Preparation 

 no. 240, * Catalogue of Monsters, Royal Coll. of Surg. Museum,' 

 Hunter recordsf the living animal as having " more of the characters 

 of an ox or spayed heifer than either bull or cow." According to 

 his description and my examination of the preparation, the vagina is 

 placed naturally, but terminates blindly at a short distance from the 

 outer opening. An organ, supposed by him to be a uterus, divides 

 into two horns with bodies more like testicles than ovaries. Vesi- 



* Todd's Cyclopaedia, vol. ii. p. 685. 



t Animal (Economy, p. 62, pis. 8, 10 ; also Museum Drawings. 



