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ivhether the abnormality is due to tlic asymmetry, or to tJie 

 compound nature of the sacrum, or to a combination of these." 

 With these very pertinent remarks I close this paper. 



UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 



LABORATORY OF PALAEONTOLOGY, May 6, 1897. 



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