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APPENDIX 
A short summary of other articles by the writer, on the subject of 
hemal nodes and related structures, is appended for the convenience of 
those who may not have access to all of them. 
I. Subcutaneous and Sub-panicular Haemolymph Glands. Ana- 
tomical Record, vol. II, Nos. 1 and 2, May 1908. 
Under this title a brief statement of a report given before the Asso- 
ciation of American Anatomists in Chicago, in December 1907, was pub- 
lished with the proceedings of the society in the Anatomical Record, vol. 
II, nos. 1 and 2, May 1908. In this report it was stated that while en- 
gaged in an investigation of the hemal nodes of the sheep in the abat- 
toirs of Minneapolis, where bovines were being simultaneously slaugh- 
tered, my attention was directed to nodes lying in the subcutaneous fat of 
the trunk of carcasses of bovines. These nodes were found to vary in 
number, from isolated specimens to approximately a score, and varied in 
size from one-half to one and a half centimeters. They were oval or cir- 
cular in outline, and usually flattened laterally. It was stated that "In color 
they vary from a bluish black to a bright red or pale pink. They are 
usually firm, the blood cannot be expressed from them by pressure, and 
injections of India ink fail to reveal any lymphatic vessels. They are 
most numerous in young cattle, and were found in foetuses of twenty- 
two or more centimeters in length. In old cattle they are generally 
small or absent altogether. 
"Their structure is very similar to that of the haemolymph nodes of 
sheep, and as wide variations in structure were found to exist. Such 
differences in structure as exist are minor, even in the case of develop- 
ing glands. In the latter the occurrence of giant cells is particularly 
noticeable, and, as in the case of developing haemolymph nodes of the 
sheep, they arise from mesenchyme. 
"In carcasses showing evidences of generalized tuberculosis, no 
change in these nodes was noticeable. 
"No relation between the size and number of these nodes and any 
condition, save that of age, was observed, although such a relationship 
very likely exists." 
