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March 18, 1863. 

 The President in the chair. 



Prof. Jeffiies Wyman exhibited drawings of a Cyclopean 

 Pig, accompanying them by the following remarks : — 



This specimen was a male, about ten inches in length, and the 

 last of a litter of nine, all the others being well formed. The snout 

 was of a cylindrical shape, about one inch and a quarter in length, 

 and was said to have been originally longer, but was contracted by 

 alcohol. The end of it was enlarged, perforated by a single nostril, 

 papillated, and surrounded by scattered bristles. A section through 

 the nose showed the existence of a partial septum. The eye was un- 

 naturally large, the upper Hd regularly arched, but the right and left 

 halves of the lower formed an acute angle with each other, the apex 

 of the angle extending downwards upon the face. Both the lids were 

 rudimentary, forming a simple border to the projecting globe. There 

 were two pupils to the eye, but the two irides were fused on the middle 

 line. Behind each pupil was a lens, but behind the lenses only a single 

 vitreous body. The ears were disproportionably large, and these, with 

 the trunk-like snout, gave to the whole head some resemblance to that 

 of an elephant. 



The end of the upper jaw was covered with a discoidal enlargement, 

 or " button," but the lower jaw was entirely wanting. The lower hp 

 was very short, and far back, leaving a large part of the roof of the 

 mouth uncovered. The mouth ended backwards in a cul-de-sac. The 

 oesophagus had no opening externally, but above ended in the two 

 Eustachian tubes. There was no tongue. 



The frontals, as usual in Cyclopean monsters, were prolonged into 

 the base of the snout, and included between them, beneath, a small 

 quadrangular bone, — probably a rudiment of the ethmoid. The nasals 

 were represented by a hollow cylindrical piece, twisted to the right 

 side, and fissured beneath. The sphenoidal fissures of the orbit were 

 connected with each other, on the middle line ; a single median 

 optic foramen existed, and behind this, in the cranial cavity, a single 

 cllnold process. One large and one small foramen above the optic, 

 gave passage to the nasal branch of the ophthalmic portion of the 

 fifth pair, this branch passing into the snout above the ethmoidal plate 

 previously mentioned. 



The two lachrymals were represented by a single bone, though this 

 was perforated by two foramina for the lachrymal ducts. The upper 

 maxlllaries were bent strongly downwards, forming a conical-shaped 

 mass, supporting two canines at the end, and enclosing the germs of 

 four milk molars. 



