Category: Science - Biology
_The expense of printing this volume has been defrayed out of the Funds of the Syndics of the University Press; and Professor Sedgwick hereby expresses his grateful thanks to them for this great favour._
_The expense of printing this volume has been defrayed out of the Funds of the Syndics of the University Press; and Professor Sedgwick hereby expresses his grateful thanks to th...
2. Part 2(1) "Un oiseau auroit des côtes plus larges, et munies chacune d'une apophyse récurrente[C]; son metatarse n'auroit formé qu'un seul os, et n'auroit pas été composé d'autanut d'...
3. Part 3The frontal-bone forms the highest part of the skull, and is similar to that of birds. The principal frontal is double, and forms the upper and hind part of the cavity for the e...
4. Part 4Since the coracoids were developed outward and backward so much more than in birds, it would happen, from the apparent different direction of the second pectoral muscle, that th...
5. Part 5Nos. 4, 11, 14, 16 are examples of other species with the foramen placed as in the last group, only less near to the proximal end, while it enters obliquely, being directed dist...
6. Part 6The tablets of this bone comprise 22 specimens. Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 19 and 22 are so mounted as to exhibit the proximal surface. Nos. 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16...
7. Part 7Each os innominatum shows a hemispherical acetabulum which is slightly elongated in antero-posterior extent In the Dimorphodon the bone which is superior to the cup, that is to...
8. Part 8The neural arch is strong, compressed from back to front, and placed as usual on the anterior part of the centrum. In outline it is sub-rhomboid with the sides concave. There is...
9. Part 9The occipital bones anchylosed together are about two-thirds the width of the foramen magnum, and of the parietal bones, with which latter the supra-occipital makes an angle of...
10. Part 10Prof. Owen has described in a 'Palæontographical' monograph the proximal end of a mandible in which the sutures are obliterated. But there is one specimen of a young right ramus...
11. Part 11Thus, if with an avian basis some parts of the skeleton present points of agreement with reptiles, in other points there are resemblances with mammals not less characteristic. T...
12. Part 12A portion of a premaxillary bone fractured at both ends, and two inches long, corresponds with Dr Bowerbank's fossil figured Pl. XXVII. fig. 1, 3, 4, in the Palæontographical vo...
13. Part 13A fragment of a ?dentary bone, fractured behind through the socket for the third tooth. The sockets are nearly circular. It measures about an inch long,, and behind the socket f...
14. Part 14[Footnote AB: For the Lithographic details of plates 1 to 3, the author is not answerable. Accidents happened to these plates in the printing, and they were replaced without his...