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[PART i. 



lacks the external (filmlan part- of a tarsus, viz. the cuboid and 

 cal'-aiiemn. There is a cuboid, cb, and a calcaneum, c, for the 

 " po>terinr " funt. lint none fin- the "anterior." The bone c 3 might 

 of roiir-e In- calli-d a cuboid: but if this is a cuboid there is n<> 

 ecto-cuneiform fnr the anterior foot. The account given in the 

 Cutulnrfiie avoids these difficulties by the statement that each foot 

 ha- three cuneiforms and a cuboid, declaring that there isasecond 

 cuboid between the t\v.. sets of cuneiforms. This is nevertheless 

 incorrect, for tin- whole distal series in the tarsus contains only 

 seven bono and not eight. The mistake has no doubt arisen by 

 (minting r :i i \\jce over. The Catalogue is also in error in neglecting 

 the fact that tin- tarsal articulation of the digit 2 is quite abnormal. 

 Similarly in tin- cms, there is no good reason to affirm that the 

 lionr jilt- is a fibula lather than a tibia. The Catalogue regards it 

 as a sec,, nd tibia, but I incline to speak of it as the fibula of the 

 'anterior' foot following the view already indicated. As I have 

 said, the leg is almost normal in the structure of its external 

 border and almost normal in its posterior border, but between 

 these the nature of the parts is problematical. All that can be 

 done is to describe the parts as they are seen. 



Beginning at the external (fibulur) border of the foot there is a 

 nearly normal series of three digits, 9, 8, 7, fashioned as V, IV and III 



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I'i'.. '.'>. I. Innominate bone of Macacus, No. 504. i 1 , p, is 1 , t l , of 1 , ilium, 

 pubis, ischium, ischial tuberosity and obturator i'oranien of the supposed anterior 

 of tli^ -mil.'; tin- ji.-irts marked 2 being the corresponding structures of the 

 supposed posterior pm t. 



II. Details of tarsus of the same. Digits numbered 19 from the inside, 

 c, caloaneum. '. navicular of "anterior" foot. -, navicular of 

 "posterior" foot, cb, cuboid, c 1 r 6 , six bones placed as cuneiforms. 



