24 BULLETIN OP THE 



fiTH Meeting. May 13, 1811. 



The President in the Chair. 

 Prof. S. F. Baird communicated a paper by Dr. H. B. Butcher 



ON TWO IMMENSE METEORITES AT CONCEPTION AND SAN GREGORIO, 



MEXICO. 



(^Concerning the subject of this communication, see "The precise geographical 



position of the large mass of Meteoric Iron in Northern Mexico [eic] 



by J. Laukence Smith ; The American Journal of Science, 



3d series, vol. ii., pp. 335-338.) 



Dr. J. J. Woodward made a communication 



ON THE alleged HERMAPHRODITE DESCRIBED BY DRS. ACCLY, 

 BLACKMAN, AND JACKSON. 



{This communication is published under the title, "Remarks on a Supposed 



Case of Hermaphroditism," in The American Journal of the Medical 



Sciences, N, S., vol. Ixii., pp. 123-125, July, 1871.) 



(ABSTRACT .) 



Dr. Woodward exhibited a wet preparation of the generative 

 organs in a case of supposed hermaphroditism, and a plaster cast 

 of the same. The specimen was originally described in the 

 American Journal of the Medical Sciences, July, 1853, and has 

 subsequently been quoted in works on medical jurisprudence as 

 one of hermaphroditism. It was recently presented to the Array 

 Medical Museum, and being well preserved in alcohol, was sub- 

 jected to further dissection and a careful microscopical examina- 

 tion. The parts supposed to be ovaries were simply little masses 

 of adipose tissue, and the case was in fact merely one of unde- 

 scended testicle in an otherwise well-developed male. 



Dr. Theodore Gill read a paper 



ON THE characteristics AND ZOOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF MAN. 



(abstract.) 



Prof Gill adverted to the various beliefs respecting the origin 

 of man, contrasted those of Lord Monboddo and Darwin, and 

 successively enumerated those characters which man shared in 

 common with animals generally, and in addition thereto, with 

 Yertebrates, with all Mammals, with the placental mammals, with 



