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The discharge then decreased and the mucous strmgs were 
less. This improvement has proceeded slowly and steadily, 
and at the end of the year there is practically no excess of 
mucus seen, when the bird opens its beak, and no crusts have 
formed upon the skin of the neck. We consider the bird prac- 
tically well. 
Notes Upon Specimens of the Female Genito-Urinary 
Organs. 
By Dr. E. A. Schumann. 
There have been no distinctive lesions of the female 
genitalia since the last report. 
[Note upon the structure of the Cotyledonal processes in 
the gravid uterus of the woolless sheep] : — 
The animal was about four months pregnant of a single 
foetus maturing in the right uterine cornua. There were 
scattered irregularly about the lining of both cornua, some 
sixty processes, averaging 1 cm. in diameter, circular in form, 
about 6 mm. in height and having a marked depression in 
the center about 2 mm. in diameter. The surfaces were 
irregular and fringed. Histologically they consisted of a 
dense collection of utricular glands, cylindrical in form and 
lined by a single layer of large cylindrical epithelium not weH 
ciliated. The glands were separated from each other by a 
stroma, peculiar in that it seemed to be of embryonal tissue, 
exceedingly rich in cells and w^ith very faintly defined connect- 
ive tissue fibres. The processes were of about equal size in 
both cornua, but were more shaggy and frondlike on the 
pregnant side. The foetal membranes were attached to many 
of the processes by velamentous bands rich in vessels. 
[Note upon the size of the Utricular Glands in various 
animals] : — 
The size of the endometrical glands seems to bear no ratio 
to the size of the animal itself. Measurements taken on the 
average sized glands in various species show wide variations 
in the diameter of the tubules, but a much less variation in 
the size of the individual epithelium cells. The glands meas- 
