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ANTHROPOID APES. 



Flower remarks that the chief distinction between 

 the foot of a man and an ape consists in the fact 

 that the latter is transformed into a prehensile 

 organ. The tarsal and metatarsal bones, and the 



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phalanges are of the same number in both orders, 

 and in the same relative position, only in the foot 

 of the ape the facet for articulation of the first cunei- 

 form bone with the great toe is saddle-shaped, and 



