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XXXI. On the Osteological Symmetry of the Camel; Camelus 
Bactrianus of Aristotle, Linneus, and Cuvier. By Walter | 
Adam, Fellow of the College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 
Communicated by R. Brown, Esq., V.P.L.S. 
Read April 19, 1831. 
Tue objects in this paper are, to state correctly the dimen- 
sions of the several bones of a large quadruped; to trace 
the mutual relations of these dimensions; and thus to exem- 
plify the general osteological form in animals of similar con- 
figuration. 
The dimensions are arranged in tables, so as to show not 
only the symmetry of the Camel, but also the aberrations from 
the apparent normal proportions of a species, and the inequa- 
lities of the right and the left sides in an individual animal. 
The Camel has been selected to illustrate the general type of its 
class on account of the stature of that animal rendering these 
slighter differences more evident than in man and in other 
animals of inferior size. As such differences must always be 
limited by the characteristic symmetry of the species to which 
an animal belongs, none other than the most exact measure- 
ments would have been of value. The accuracy that has been 
attempted will not, it is hoped, be thought needless in a general 
inquiry. 
The bones measured are those of a Baggage-camel from Ben- 
gal, and constitute one of many osteological specimens, for 
whose 
