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D. S. KELLICOTT. 
upon this committee for the able assistance they have ren¬ 
dered me; and I also wish to take this opportunity of 
expressing my obligations to my friend and preceptor, Dr. 
Liautard, for the kindly and useful advice and information 
he has given me, and to which this report is greatly indebted 
for much of the value it may have. 
Next year we shall have a grand international veterinary 
congress in Chicago, at the time of the nation’s celebration of 
the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America 
by Christopher Columbus. What is a more fitting sentence 
for me to close with than the words of the immortal Lincoln? 
Let us meet there, “With malice toward none, with charity 
for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the 
right; let us strive on to finish the work we are in.” 
NOTES ON CERTAIN ABNORMALITIES IN ANIMALS, 
By D. S. Kellicott, Columbus, O. 
From time to time abnormalities have been observed in 
animals dissected in the zoological laboratory of the Ohio 
State University. During the last academic year several of 
unusual interest occurred, and the three briefly described be¬ 
low, it is thought, may have sufficient value to warrant record 
in a technical journal. 
1 . The first case that I will mention was one of arrested 
sexual development in a sheep, giving a malformed animal, 
sometimes called a “ hermaphrodite.” In February, Mr. 
H. E. Rutan of Mechanicsburg, O., informed me that in his 
flock was a sheep which he thought was a ewe, but that it did 
not act like one. He kindly granted a request for the privi¬ 
lege of studying it, and the results were as follows: 
The sheep was about a year old, weighed one hundred 
pounds, appeared to be in perfect health, and had in general 
the appearance of a ewe. There was no scrotum, but the 
homologue, the labia majora were well developed, normal in 
position and externally covered with short hair. The testi¬ 
cles could be felt in the inguinal region. On removing the 
