TasLte I].—SYNONYMS or tue ELEMENTS or toe TYPICAL VERTEBRA: [Insert at the end of the Report.] 
OWEN'. GEOFFROY®. CARUS®. MULLER®. CUVIER?. SOEMMERRING*. 
Autogenous Dlements. 
Centrum (kévrpov, CONG) apmreeevsstenvsirctsnects Cycléal .. Tertiar-wirbel ......... Wirbel-kérper «..... Corps! deivertebreverscsccssssssesnexteses Corpus vertebrie. 
Neurapophysis (vedpov, nerve, and dndpuors, a Périal «.... Deckplatten and Grundplatten . Oberer Wirbelbogen.. Partie anmulaire, on lames vertébrales Arcus posterior vertebrae, seu radices arcus 
process of bone). pan 
Parapophysis (apd, across, and dmdduats) «+++ Paraal (in the tail of fishes) ...... Querfortsatz ... Unterer Querfortsatz. Apophyse transverse . Rad cRnoF seu anticn processus transversi ver- 
tebree. 
Pleurapophysis (wAevpa, a rib, and drrddvuots) «+ argaltsccccesacversss sorsavonseesens Riickentheil and Ober-sternal-theil des | ..... sovenceasecesansnsnans Cotes vertébrales ...sscccscccccescesscceeeseees Processus transversus vertebrae cervicalis. Costa, 
Urwirbelbogens. seu pars yertebralis, seu ossea, costa. 
Haemapophysis?; by syncope for hamato-apo- Cataal ... Unter-sternal-theil des Urwirbelbogens... Unterer Wirbelbogen Cotes sternales (in thorax); edtes abdomi- Cartilago coste seu pars sternalis cost; (in 
physis (from Gr. alya, Wood, and dréuars) nales, ou cartilages ventraux (in abdo- the abdomen) inscriptiones tendines: mus- 
men); os ployé en chevron (in tail). euli recti. 
Neural spine ...... sonsensecesssensne feveveretvexsesee Périal (in fishes); épial (in other (Its base is the) Oberer Tertiar-wirbel, Oberer Dornfortsatz.. Apophyse €pimeuse sscseeeeesssseereeensaeens Processus spinosus yertebra:. 
vertebrates). (its apex is the) Oberer Dornfortsatz. 
Homal spine ......006+ muvetee dcetece OASLOCCELECO EDD Paraal (in fishes); cataal (in other Sternal-wirbel Korper .....ssseeceeeees cco Unterer Dornfortsatz syabonataavdenccan?darssansuvaddeavaudeasiah maaerenccey Ossa sterni et processus ensiformis ; (in the ab- 
vertebrates) *. domen) linea alba. 
Exogenous Parts. 
Diapophysis (8:4, across, and drdcbuats) ......0. Paraal (in reptiles and mammals) Querfortsatz ..... SACRED CORDON EOCUCC CCL Oberer Querfortsatz.. Apophyse transverse ........++ Mrtaddccccth Badle osticus processus transversi vertebrae, 
and) processus transyersus. 
Zygapophysis (Cvyds, junction, and drduats)... * én Seitlicher Tertiar-wirbel  .. Gelenk-fortsatz ...... Apophyse articulaire ........ Eccceeerepnsnscenee riosuend obliquus vertebra. 
' Description of the Plesiosaurus macrocephalus (April1838), apophyses.” Dr. Stannius, it seems, would abrogate the useful 3 Mémoires du Muséum, 4to, t. ix. 1822, p.89. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1834. The terms adopted in 
‘Geological Transactions,’ 2nd series, vol. v. p. 518. license of the grammarian’s syncope and apocope: but how 4 The dermal spines which sustain the ‘dorsal and anal fins most of the recent works of the German zootomists correspond 
’ The accurate and laborious coadjutor of Prof. von Siebold, many current scientific terms must be expanded into sesquipe- of fishes are called respectively “épiaux” and “‘cataaux” by with those of John Miiller. é 
the second part of a recently published compendium of Com- dalian longitude, if such “ purism”’ should prevail! See‘ Lehr- Geoffroy. 7 Lecons d’Anatomie Comparée, t.i, edit. 1835. 
rative Anatomy, adopting in part my Nomenclature of the buch der Vergleichenden Anatomie,’ yon V. Siebold und Stan- 5 Urtheile des Knochen- und Schalen-geriistes, fol. 1828. ® De Corporis Humani Fabrica. 
ticbral Elements, corrects this word, and writes “ hemato- uius, Zweiter Theil, p. 5. ® Vergleichende Anatomie der Myxinoiden: Abhand. Akad. 
