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University, and hoped that a minute anatomical and micro- 
scopic examination of it would be made. 
V. Anatomical Description of the Complex Generative Organs 
of a God Fish. By Ramsay H, Traquaiu, M.D. 
Dr Traquair made some short remarks as to the anato- 
mical details of this peculiar state of the generative organs, 
which, however, he had not been able as yet to examine 
very particularly. 
VI. Notice of various specimens of the deformed variety of the Morrhua 
vulgaris, the common Cod Fish, the Lord Fish of Yarrell, recently 
tahen in the Firth of Forth, Bj John Alexander Smith, M.D. 
(The specimens were exhibited.) 
Dr Smith said he was indebted to Mr Charles Muirhead, 
Queen Street, for the specimens of the peculiar deformed- 
looking cod fish now exhibited ; this fish was figured and 
designated by Yarrell, in his " British Fishes," vol. ii., as the 
Lord Fish, and was generally considered as an accidental 
deformity, due, as was formerly shown to the Society in 
December 1855, by Dr T. Spencer Cobbold [see Proceed- 
ings, vol. i. p. 51], to a remarkable shortening and coalescence 
of some of the vertebrae, from disease, giving it thus a sort 
of humpbacked appearance. 
A carefully detailed account of the same peculiarity has 
also been given by Dr Kobert Dyce to the British Associa- 
tion at its meeting in Aberdeen in 1859, which was published 
in the ''Annals and Magazine of i^atural History" for 1860. 
Dr Dyce, in his communication, also shows that the ,i 
peculiarity of shape is due to disease, and points out the i 
identity of YarrelFs " Lord Fish" with the Morrhua vulgaris, 
and also with the " Speckled Cod," the Morrhua punctata of 
Turton's " British Fauna," 1807. 
The strange peculiarity, however, and one not easily ex- 
plained, lay in the fact stated to him by Mr Bargh, Mr 
Muirhead's assistant, that these fish were not uncommon at 
this particular season of the year, and that in a take of six or 
