328 Supracondyloid Foramen and Processes in Man 



bility,or rather the probability, of an analogous state of affairs in animals? 

 We find similarity of plan where inheritance is excluded, ergo inherit- 

 ance is not the sole cause of similarity, whether we deal with the normal 

 condition or with variations. The old idea of type, abused and made 

 ridiculous as it has been, is not all error. 



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EXPLANATION OF FIGURES ON PLATE I. 



Fig. 1. — Supracondyloid foramen seen not directly from the front, but a 

 little from the outside. 



Fig. 2. — Peculiar process from anterior border. Inner aspect. 

 Fig. 3. — Barkow's " external supracondyloid process." 



