CASE OF LUSTJS NATURiE IN TWIN CALVES. 261 
cut off the large calf’s head, with a portion of one fore leg, so as 
to enable me to turn it. I then forced it back, and attached a 
line to the deformed calf’s fore leg, an assistant pulling hard all 
the while. I soon found I could not get away one calf without 
the other ; and as the cow was in good condition, I sent to Mr. 
Lendall, that he had better have her killed. This was done ; 
and upon taking out the uterus, the reason I could not extract 
the calf appeared very evident, it being a double one (like the 
Siamese twins) joined to each other by the cartilages of the ribs, 
and clasping each other round the body with their fore legs. 
Altogether, it is a most curious-looking prodigy, the largest twin 
being of average size, and a well-formed and perfect calf, to all 
outward appearances, excepting being joined and growing to 
the other the full length of the chest. 
Description, externally. — This creature has eight legs, 
seven of which are in a natural position. The off fore leg of 
the small calf is twisted half round at the shoulder joint; the 
outside of the leg being now inside; the foot bending towards 
the head instead of from it. The large one is a bull calf, and 
has a tail ; the small one has not the least trace of a tail, 
neither has it any anus, nor is it of any sex. The body is 
short, the hip-bone nearly touching the scapula on the near side. 
The head has some resemblance to a monkey’s head; the upper 
jaw being very short, the lower one slightly projecting, and the 
incisor teeth rather wide apart. The frontal bone rises about 
an inch and a half above the orbital process, all round above 
which is a collection of fluid, nearly as large as a gallon mea- 
sure. On the near side there are eyelids which may be opened 
far enough to admit a pea. The off-side will not take more 
than a pin’s head. It has but one set of umbilical vessels. The 
skeleton of the large calf is perfect. It has thirteen ribs on 
each side. The small one has twelve ribs on the off-side and 
two only on the near ; the hind one being about as large as 
three ribs, and the fore is three inches wide at the cartilages. 
These cartilages are united on each side to those of the other 
calf, forming one large cavity, which contained one heart and 
one lung. There were two stomachs and sets of intestines; 
one very large liver, and four kidneys, two to each calf. It has 
but one dorsal vertebra, with a very large spinous process, 
which is curved. The neck is also curved to the off side. The 
head has more the shape of a monkey’s than a calf’s head, 
having a very short upper jaw ; and the frontal bone projects 
over where the orbit of the eye should be, of which there is a 
slight trace on the near side. The bone then terminates ab- 
ruptly all round. There was but very little brain. The skin 
