400 C. H. DANFORTH 



other organs rather than to an mherent morphological individu- 

 ality of any given vessel. On this basis similar vascular arrange- 

 ments might be produced by very different causes, and it is not 

 impossible that this fact may explain the above described simi- 

 larity between skates and the cartilaginous ganoids. 



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