CHAPTER VIII 



TRAXSCKXDK.XTAL AXATn.MY IX KXGI.AXD- 

 RICHARD OWKN 



RICHARD OWEN is the epigonos of transcendental mor- 

 phology ; in him its guiding ideas find clear expression, and 

 in his writings are no half-truths struggling for utterance. 

 But he was, though a staunch transcendcntalist, an eclectic of 



zygsupophysis . 



dia.pophysis . 



pa.rsbpophysis 



., neuraJ spine 



_ . . - neur&pophysis 



---^ - - - p/eurapoph/sis 



haemapophysis 



-p ophysis 



- - hasmaJ spine 

 FlG. 4. Idcul Typical Vcrlclmi. (After Owen.) 



the older ideas current in his time ; for he picked out wh.it 

 was best in the older systems Cuvier's teleology, Geoffrey's 

 principle of connections, Okcn's idea of the serial repetition 

 of parts. In particular, he assimilated the teaching of Cuvier, 

 the great opponent of the transcendentalists, and reconciled it 



