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testicular in shape ; about six inches in length and weighing 
about three pounds. 
On incision, the contents, yellow in color, thick and creamy 
in consistency, partly ran out. On examination I found it to be 
undergoing calcarious degeneration. 
Near the opening of the now closed canal of the peduncle, 
was found a “ bunch ” of calcarious deposits, as large as an egg, 
but of irregular shape, though its portions were not intimately 
united. 
Surrounding the closed canal of the peduncle, four rudimen¬ 
tary cysts were found, containing a substance analagous to 
that found in the parent cyst. 
The walls of the parent cyst were well defined, and consisted 
of at least three layers ; the internal, which simulated a serous 
membrane, which it undoubtedly was, for the peduncle was di¬ 
rectly in communication with the dura matar. 
The removal of this meningocele during life would have been 
a tedious operation, to say the least, and its situation probably 
rendered it an impossibility. 
The evacuation of its contents might have been accomplished, 
but in either case death would undoubtedly have resulted from 
sympathetic, or possibly, direct inflammation of the meninges. 
EDITORIAL 
SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING OP THE UNITED STATES VETERINARY 
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
In our last issue, referring to the importance of the formation 
of State Veterinary Societies, and to their union in joining with 
the oldest national association of the Union, we stated that we 
understood that the next meeting of the United States Veterinary 
Medical Association was to be held in Cincinnati. We were 
brought to that conclusion by the fact that a letter had been sent 
to the President of the Association urging this movement—a let¬ 
ter which had been signed by almost all the members of the 
Comitia Minora, in whose hands rest the choice of place of meet- 
