It would merely tend to show that Man has been as constant in his osteological characters as many other mammalia now his contemporaries.
Before I speak more particularly of the opinions which anatomists have expressed respecting the osteologicalcharacters of the human skull from Engis, near Liege, mentioned in the last chapter and described by Dr.
Lartet says he has sought in vain for it among the osteological treasures sent from Abbeville to Cuvier at Paris, and in other collections.
I am indebted to Linda Trueb for assistance with the osteological aspects of this study; she helped to clarify many confusing points.
Since I have no osteological material from Central America, I have been unable to describe the cranium in this account.
The integumentary portions have been all removed, but it exhibits the same osteological characters as the Oxford head, though less perfect, the base of the occiput being absent.
But it is by no means always possible to secure a wild animal without breaking some portion of its osteological anatomy.
Place each leg in the attitude chosen for it, plant the foot according to its osteological character, and pin each toe in its proper place, as shown in the accompanying plate.
I know of no other osteological collection which in the beauty and scientific accuracy of mounting, and exhibition arrangement of its specimens, can be considered equal to this.
All of the osteological terms used in the present paper, whether used by Howard or not, are briefly defined below.
All osteological terms used in the present paper are defined and those of the pelvis are illustrated.
In the section "Character Analysis" external and osteological characters having taxonomic significance are discussed.
Some differences in skulls of the three species already were mentioned in the section "Osteological Characters.
Some osteological characters and their variation in the living species are mentioned as an aid to future workers concerned with an assay of fossil remains.
On the basis of the osteological characters examined by me, T.
Other osteological characters presumably as in spinifer.
Because osteologicalcharacters are significant only at the specific level, they appear under the accounts of each species (excluding ater).
Materials and Procedures In the course of this study I examined 1849 soft-shelled turtles, including some incomplete alcoholic or dried specimens, such as those represented only by skulls or by other osteological material.
Considering osteological characters, muticus is most distinct; there is less difference between ferox and spinifer than between those species and muticus.
Some osteological characters of the three living American species (excluding ater) together with data on variation within a given species are mentioned below.
The first quadrumanous fossils discovered in India were observed in 1836 in the Sewalik Hills, a lower range of the Himalayan Mountains, by Lieutenants Baker and Durond, by whom their osteological characters were determined (Journ.
The other contemporary genus, called phascolotherium, agrees much more nearly in osteological character and precisely in the number of the teeth with the opossums; and is believed to have been truly marsupial.
Mantell has drawn up a detailedosteological account for publication in the "Journal of the Geological Society of London.
FOX Information about osteological changes in the groups of reptiles that gave rise to mammals is preserved in the fossil record, but the musculature of these reptiles has been lost forever.
Musculature These osteological features indicate that the adductor muscles of the jaw in Captorhinus consisted of two primary masses (Figs.
Seeing how different the Chinese pigs, belonging to the Sus Indica type, are in their osteological characters and in external {71} appearance from the pigs of the S.
The other group differs in several important and constantosteological characters; its wild parent-form is unknown; the name given to it by Nathusius, according to the law of priority, is Sus Indica of Pallas.
Of course, these instances that I have given are all of the most obvious nature, but they serve to show my meaning; and the same line of reasoning can, I am sure, be extended to all the more minute points in osteological structure.
The fact is, the field is yet open for an Osteological Manual.
Another very fine feature of the Liverpool Museum, and worthy of imitation, is the manner in which the osteological preparations are managed.
Some osteological studies on hylids have yielded worthwhile information.
Osteological data were obtained from dried skeletons and cleaned and stained specimens of all species, plus serial sections of the skull of Smilisca baudini.
Carvalho (1954) presented osteological evidence for the generic separation of New World microhylids.
Interspecific Relationships In attempting to understand the relationships of the species of Smilisca we have emphasized osteological characters.
The osteological characters presented by the remains of the Hylæosaurus are described by Dr.
This family embraces three genera, readily distinguishable by osteological characters--Alligator, Caiman, and Jacare.
But, in addition to this, I had the good fortune to find, among the recent additions to that excellent osteological collection which Dr.
The black spots on the belly have been inadvertently left out; otherwise the plate is excellent, as are all the others, especially the osteological ones.
They also present certain osteological differences from the right whales; the latter have the whole of the seven cervical vertebrae anchylosed, that is to say generally, for sometimes the seventh is free.
None of them (except Tupaia) have a caecum (this genus has been most exhaustively described in all itsosteological details by Dr.
But Sir Victor Brooke's is founded on more reliable osteological details.
The skull of the saiga is unique among ruminants, and those who wish to become acquainted with its most minute osteological details should refer to an article on this animal by Dr.
The osteologicalcharacters which separate it from Macropus are quite insignificant.
There are also a number ofosteological characters in which the two Physeterines differ from each other.
For it separates with great clearness the existing genera into three great divisions, the Cynoidea, Aeluroidea, and Arctoidea, definable by visceral as well as by osteological characters.
The skull is very like that of the Rabbit; but in other osteological details it is aberrant.
There are a number of osteological characters which differentiate the two families; thus the alisphenoid canal is sometimes present.
As to osteological characters, it has a more oblique symphysis of the mandible than in any other Carnivore.
Both, however, furnish spermaceti, and in variousosteological details come near together.
In osteological characters it tends to unite the two families Balaenopteridae and Balaenidae (if they are really necessary subdivisions).
Broca published an account of the osteological characters a few years later.
And although modern Europeans undoubtedly may possess any of theosteological characters claimed as 'negroid' by Dr Verneau, nevertheless the African negro races possess those characters more frequently and more markedly.
The thing is an osteological specimen; a mere anatomical abstraction.
It was necessary for me to visit the osteological dealer in the course of the morning to obtain three suitable skeletons as understudies according to my plan.
The osteological lecturer was not always identical with the visceral lecturer, nor he with the lecturer upon the muscles, though some great teachers, like Reid and Harvey, gave a course upon each subject.
Harvey's osteological lecture has not yet been found, and many of his investigations in comparative anatomy are still wanting.
They differ from common cattle in various osteological characters, even in a greater degree, according to Rutimeyer (3/32.
Sanson seems to believe that osteological characters are subject to very little variation, which is certainly a mistake.
Seeing how different the Chinese pigs, belonging to the Sus indicus type, are in their osteological characters and in external appearance from the pigs of the S.
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