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of the fish. The diminution of the anterior cham- 

 ber, and therefore of the aqueous humour, by the 

 flatness, is compensated by a greater convexity 

 and refractive power of the crystalline lens, and 

 to allow for the deviation from the spherical form, 

 and the consequent weakening of the power to 

 resist external pressure, the sclerotic capsule is 

 cartilaginous or bony. 



Well may Owen exclaim, "This beautiful chain 

 of adjustments and inter-dependencies cannot but 

 raise the rightly-constituted mind to the contem- 

 plation of the attributes of Creative Intelligence, 

 herein so strikingly displayed." (Lectures, vol. 

 ii., p. 207.) 



