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the moulds of these teeth in the wood, and made the metal casts.
Could not tell precisely how much time was spent on them; it must
have been quite a number of days. Have put blocks of teeth into the
fire, to see how readily they would crack, and I have never known them
not to crack; they may be heated up gradually and cooled with per-
fect safety. Coincide with Dr. Keep as to his opinion. Some time
after the fitting of the teeth,-about a year, I think,-an accident
happened to them; they bent together, and they had to be reannealed
to the pattern. I had to heat them for this purpose, and the mark of
the blow-pipe still remains.
DR. JEFFRIES WYMAN, sworn. -I am Professor of Anatomy in Har-
vard University; have been a teacher of anatomy for the last eight
vears. First went to the Medical College on Sunday, the 2nd of
December. I had given to me the charge of the bones found in the
furnace ; made a catalogue of them. These bones in this box are the
bones. I was not called specially to the other parts of the remains. [The
witness explained a drawing of a skeleton, in which the bones found
were marked in yellow. There were no marks of the body being a
subject for dissection ; it struck me that the sternum was taken out as
it would have been by a physician at an ordinary post-mortem exam-
ination. I was also struck with the separation of the sternum from
the clavicles, or collar-bones, and first rib ; the route for the knife to
pass through is so difficult, that a person having no knowledge of the
structure of the parts would not have been likely to direct it in that
way. I did not feel myself called upon to examine critically. I
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