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THE EVOLUTION OF MAN. 



These cells are all the products of the stin-fibrous layer. 

 At a very early period, a small cavity appears in each of 

 these solid primitive vertebrae, which cavity, however, soon 

 again disappears. This " primitive vertebral cavity " (Figs. 

 95, 96, uwh, pp. 317, 318) is worthy of note only in so far as it 



Fig. 112. — Transverse section through the embryo of a Chick on the 

 fourth day of incubation (about 100 times the natural size). The primitive 

 vertebrae have separated into the outer muscle -pi ate (mp) and the inner 

 skeleton-plate. The latter below, as the vertebral bodies (v;h), begins to 

 surround the notochord (c/i) ; above, as the vertebral arches (w~b), begins 

 to surround the medullary tube (m), the cavity of which (mh), is already 

 very narrow. At ivq the primitive vertebra passes into the skin-muscle 

 plate of the ventral wall (lip) ; hpr, leather-plate of the dorsal wall ; h, 

 horn-plate ; a, amnion ; ung, primitive kidney duct ; un, primitive urinary 

 canal; ao, primitive artery; vc, cardinal vein ; df, intestinal-fibrous layer; 

 dd, intestinal-glandular layer j dr, intestinal groove. 



