Frankfeld v. United States

This appeal brings here for determination the proper dutiable classification, under the tariff act of 1913, of certain pituitary glands taken from calves and imported from Argentina. Pituitary glands are common to all animals, appearing on or under the surface of the *297brain, their function being vital and in connection with that organ. In calves at least they hang to the brain by a little stem rather close up to the under surface of the brain, being included therewith in the brain pan. They are a separate and distinct body, structurally a gland. They are imported frozen for transportation…