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tasks (see fig. 1) is doubtless abnormal, and is doubtless owing 

 to their unsymmetrical development and overlapping at the 

 points, which must have interfered to some extent with their 

 use, and hence have preserved them from wearing. 



FIG. 1. Odobanus rosmarm, $ . 



In the National Museum at Washington are also four skulls, 

 which, though unmarked as to sex, are unquestionably those of 



