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joints are commonly ankylosed. On the other 

 hand, the great toe has undergone extraordinary 

 development, because the inner side of the foot is 

 the first to catch the centre of gravity in trans- 

 ferring the weight of the body from one foot to 

 the other in walking ; and I ventured to predict 

 that if the world went on long enough, in perhaps 

 half a million of years, as the useless outer toes 

 being less and less employed gradually dis- 

 appeared, man might become a one-toed race. 



FIG. 4. 



From this digression into which allusion to 

 Wiesmann's theory has tempted me, I return to 



