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wards; it constitutes a femur, patella (both atrophied or very 
small in size compared to other parts of the same leg) ; the tibia, 
fibula, tarsus, metatarsus are normal, also the first, second and 
third phalanx; the third phalanx is enclosed in one claw instead 
of two as usual. 
I may here mention that this hull was presented to me for 
castration (not the abnormal testicle mentioned above, hut his 
two other real testicles!). 
The owner, a show-man, presented to me a couple of years 
ago a bull of nearly the same description for castration, only 
that one had a pair of testicles on his neck, body of a goat and 
two small legs attached to it. 
The vacancy on the Missouri State Board of Examiners has 
been filled by the appointment of Dr. D. B. Morgan, of Neosho. 
The Doctor is a man of wide experience and doubtless will prove 
a very efficient member of this Board. 
A Three-toed Horse 6,000,000 Years Old: I11 a clipping 
from the Evanszille (Ind.) Courier of June 16 (courtesy of Dr. 
Ferguson) we read of the discovery of the skeleton of a three¬ 
toed horse 6,000,000 years old, in the shale fields on the desert, 
28 miles east of Mina, Nevada, the announcement being the re¬ 
sult of the explorations of Prof. Lawrence Baker, of the De¬ 
partment of Geological Research of the University of California. 
We are reminded of how young and immature we are. 
