48 RECAPITULATION 



x. RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION. 



Let us recapitulate the whole (?) (of) these latter 

 sections by taking case of the three species of 

 Rhinoceros, which inhabit Java, Sumatra, and main- 

 land of Malacca or India. We find these three close 

 neighbours, occupants of distinct but neighbouring 

 districts, as a group having a different aspect from 

 the Rhinoceros of Africa, though some of these 

 latter inhabit very similar countries, but others 

 most diverse stations. We find them intimately 

 related [scarcely (?) differences more than some 

 breeds of cattle] in structure to the Rhinoceros, 

 which for immense periods have inhabited this one, 

 out of three main zoological divisions of the world. 

 Yet some of these ancient animals were fitted to 

 very different stations: we find all three (illegible) 

 of the generic character of the Rhinoceros, which 

 form a [piece of net] 1 set of links in the broken chain 

 representing the Pachydermata, as the chain like- 

 wise forms a portion in other and longer chains. 

 We see this wonderfully in dissecting the coarse leg 

 of all three and finding nearly the same bones as in 

 bat's wings or man's hand, but we see the clear 

 mark in solid tibia of the fusion into it of the fibula. 

 In all three we find their heads composed of three 

 altered vertebrae, short neck, same bones as giraffe. 

 In the upper jaws of all three we find small teeth 

 like rabbit's. In dissecting them in foetal state we 

 find at a not very early stage their form exactly 

 alike the most different animals, and even with 

 arteries running as in a fish: and this similarity 

 holds when the young one is produced in womb, 

 pond, egg or spawn. Now these three undoubted 

 species scarcely differ more than breeds of cattle, 



1 The author doubtless meant that the complex relationships between 

 organisms can be roughly represented by a net in which the knots stand 

 for species. 



