On a Non-striped Muscle of the Orbit. 



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Merchant, Glasgow; J. Alfred Wanklyn, Esq., M.R.C.S.L., F.R.S.E., 

 &c, Demonstrator of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh. Cap- 

 tain F. W. L. Thomas, R.N., was elected a non-resident member. 



It was moved by George Logan, Esq., that on account of 

 the deeply lamented death of H.E.H. the Prince Consort, 

 the Society do adjourn to the fourth Wednesday of January. 



The motion was unanimously agreed to ; Alexander 

 Bryson, Esq., making the following remarks from the 

 chair : — 



Gentlemen, — I cannot close the meeting of the Society 

 without giving expression to feelings which I know animate 

 the breast of every Briton. Never in my own remembrance 

 has such i sensation been experienced as that which thrilled 

 through the kingdom yesterday, when the people learned 

 that their beloved Queen was a widow. The late Prince 

 Consort was among the few of the great and distinguished 

 who honoured himself by honouring our pursuits by his 

 appreciation and knowledge of them. We must ever feel 

 how much our country has been indebted to Prince Albert 

 for many institutions cognate with our own, and it is to me 

 a satisfaction, though a melancholy one, that he was enabled 

 to do so much good work. 



Mr William Turner, M.B., begged that before the Society 

 adjourned, he might be allowed to exhibit some moist pre- 

 parations he had brought in illustration of his paper, as they 

 could not be preserved and again exhibited. Mr Turner s 

 request was agreed to, and the following communication was 

 laid on the table : — 



I. Upon a Non-striped Muscle connected ivith the Orbital Periosteum of 

 Man and Mammals ; and Notes on the Musculus Kerato-cricoideus. 

 By William Turner, M.B. (London), F.R.S.E., Senior Demonstrator 

 of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh. 



Whilst engaged in making a dissection, in the human 

 subject, during the winter session of last year, of the 

 superior maxillary, or second division of the fifth cranial 

 nerve, my attention was attracted to a pale-reddish, soft 

 mass, filling up the narrow chink of the spheno-maxil- 

 lary fissure, and extending from the sphenoidal fissure in 



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