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was deficiency of digits both on hands and feet and the latter were 

 bound together by a connecting band of skin. The thighs and legs were 

 included for the most part in the same folds of skin and bent upon 

 the abdomen. As regards the face, the nose was very scunted, appearing 

 as little more than a pair of apertures on the face. Beneath it was 

 a prominence which was subsequently found to be caused by the pre- 

 maxillary bones. The lips were united by three bands of skin between 

 which small aperture led into the cavity of the mouth. The left eye 

 was smaller than the right. There was no fissure in the soft parts 

 of the face. On opening the lips and removing the inferior maxilla 

 so as to examine the cavity of the mouth, the first thing noticed was 

 that there were no posterior nares. In fact at the back of the pharynx 



there was nothing to be 

 fig. 3. seen but a pair of slit-like 



openings, one on either 



side, which on examination 



proved to be the orifices 



of the Eustachian tubes. 



On the right side at the 



front of the mouth was an 



oval opening in the roof, 



leading through the alveolar 



border anteriorly. In the 



centre of this opening and 



running longitudinally in an 



antero-posterior direction was an edge of bone covered with mucous 



membrane, which I as first took for the vomer ; on dissection, however, 



it turned out to be the right middle turbinated bone. 



The soft parts were there carefully removed and the appearances 

 presented by the bones are represented in fig. 3. In the middle line 

 in front are the two premaxillse (s) pulled very much over to the left 

 side, especially posteriorly. The right bone is much smaller than the 

 left and only contains one incisor socket, its fellow having two. Behind 

 the premaxillae are the two quite separate halves of the vomer (c, c) 

 abutting posteriorly on the sphenoid. The perpendicular plate of the 

 ethmoid is of course unossified. Both the superior maxillae, but especially 

 the right present a great deficiency of development in connection with 

 their palatine portions (j>, p). That of the right, in fact is a mere 

 fringe to the alveolar portion. The palate bones (/", f) are also deficient 

 in the same part. That of the right has a small palatine portion which 

 is a continuation of the same process of the superior maxilla. That 



