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it me and let me ’mell it.” One sniff; and she either rejects 
it with scorn if it be the wrong one, or complacently admits 
that it is hers. 
The furrow which exists between the nose and the upper 
lip, and the point projecting from the upper lip are much more 
marked in children than in older persons. These are really 
vestiges of a former condition; for, to my mind, they obviously 
indicate that certain ancestors, somewhere in the phylogen- 
etic series, possessed’a divided lip—commonly known as the 
hare-lip, from the animal shewing it—and that the two parts 
of this lip have grown together again to form the single lip as 
we possess it. This idea receives further confirmation from the 
fact that in two of my children there is a distinct scar down 
the middle of the furrow.* 
The mammae in the male are rudimentary, but curiously 
enough they are more developed in young boys than in young 
girls. Also at birth boys possess more milk than girls—in one 
boy it lasted for more than a fortnight. The toes are certainly 
in a rudimentary condition, and all but the big toe are probably 
on the high road to disappearance. So far is the rudimentary 
condition sometimes carried that I know a case in which the 
little toes are mere lumps of gristle, without bone. For the 
little toe to be without any joint is not an uncommon 
occurrence. 
Man’s CHARACTERISTICS IN REGARD TO HEREDITY. 
The evidence which Man furnishes in support of the law 
of earlier inheritance is not so clear as in the case of 
Ammonites; because it is not possible to obtain as with the 
latter a successive series of the various phases of development, 
extending over such a space of time as is represented by Lias 
and Oolite. It may, however, be advantageous to briefly sum 
up what Man shews in this connection. The flexibility of the 
[*In Hiickel’s “ Anthropogenie,” Vol. II., 4th Edition, p. 670, fig. 329, the 
human embryo is represented with a slit lip—the slit divides the nostrils too. ] 
