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K. E. VON BAER. PHILOSOPHICAL FRAGMENTS. 



and regulates all their peculiar relations. It is the same thought 

 which collected the masses scattered through space into spheres, 

 and united them into systems of suns ; it is that which called 

 forth into living forms the dust weathered from the surface of 

 the metallic planet. But this thought is nothing less than Life 

 itself, and the words and syllables in which it is expressed are 

 the multitudinous forms of the Living. 



DESCRIPTION OF FIGURE. 



Ideal figure of the organic movements in Verte- 

 brate. The body of the animal is suj)posed to 

 be transparent, so that the outline only is seen. 

 The outline of the heart is indicated (the right 

 auricle is drawn rather too much backwards). 

 The view is from the dorsal surface. 



1'. Course of the red blood into the left ventricle. 



1. Course of it out of the left ventricle. 



2. Course of the venous blood from the anterior half 



of the body into the right auricle. 



3. Course of the venous blood from the posterior 



half of the body into the right auricle. 



4. Course of the portal blood. 

 6. Course of the respired air. 



6. Course of the food from the pharynx into the 



oesophagus. 



7. Course of the chyme from the stomach into the 



intestine. 



8. Course of the faeces. 



9. Course of the ova. 



Cr. H. H.] 



