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THE EVOLUTION OF MAN. 



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FIGS. 221-223. Lyre-shaped (or sole-shaped) germ-shield of a Chick, in 

 three consecutive stages of evolution, seen from the dorsal surface: about 

 twenty times enlarged. Fig. 221, with six pairs of primitive vertebrae. 

 The brain a simple bladder (hb). The medullary furrow is wide open from 

 the point x, very wide at z. mp, Marrow (or medullary) plates ; sp, side- 

 plates; y, boundary between the throat cavity (ah) and the head-intestine 

 (vd). Fig. 222, with ten pairs of primitive vertebrae. The brain consists of 

 three bladders : v, fore-brain ; m, mid-brain ; h, hind-brain, c, Heart ; dv, 

 yelk-veins. The medullary furrow is wide open behind (z). n>p, Marrow- 

 plates. Fig. 223, with sixteen pairs of primitive vertebrae. The brain 

 consists of five bladders: v, fore-brain ; z, twixt-brain; m. mid-brain ; h, 

 hind-brain ; n, after-brain, o, Eye. vesicles ; gr, ear. vesicles ; c, heart 5 dv, 

 yelk-veins ; mp, marrow-plate, uiv, primitive vertebrae. 



