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Fig. 28 a, page 30. Button of the Hair of the Beard, which grew under the chin, with 

 a portion of the follicle and disrupted tissue. 



Fig. 28 b, page 30. Three Shafts growing out of one Button of the Beard. 



Fig. 29 a, page 32. Button of a Hair of the Axillae, (exhibiting a portion of the shaft, 

 the follicle, and vessels.) 



Fig. 29 b, page 32. Another of the same, (with its vessels as seen in the transverse 

 section of the skin of a male of 25.) 



Fig. 30, page 32. A Button of a Hair of the Pubes; a, the button; b, a portion of the 

 follicle; c, the shaft; d, the tissue, disrupted and torn out of the soft, sebaceous skin. 



Fig. 31 a, page 33. Button of a Hair of the Forearm ; a, the button; b, portion of the 

 follicle ; c, the shaft ; d, a part of a disrupted vessel ; e, a portion of the tissue. 



Fig 31 b, page 33. A Button of a Hair of the back of the Hand. 



Fig. 32 a, page 33. The Hair of a Mexican Mummy, with no Button. (The posterior 

 termination of the shaft is inclined, and some minute vessels make their appearance.) 



Fig. 32 &, page 33. The Hair of a Peruvian Mummy, with its diminutive Button. 



Fig. 33, page 33. Button of an Ovarian Hair-; a, the button; b, the shaft, showing the 

 scales of the cortex; c, a white substance with which the hair is enveloped. 



Fig. 34 a, page 34. Outlines of the Buttons of Hairs of some of the Lower Animals, 

 viz: A, the Troglodyte Gorilla; B, Horse; C, Zebra; D, Cow; E, the Arabian Bull 

 Calf; F, the Gnou; G, Rocky Mountain, American or Long-Horned Antelope; H, Elk; 

 J, the Lama; K, Dasyprocta Nigra; L, Kangaroo Rat; M, Dicranoceros Americanus. 



Fig. 34: b, page 34. Button of the Animals that have a Paved Cortex. 



Fig. 36, page 35. The Shaft of a Hair fractured in the centre, and the fibres obtrud- 

 ing. 



Fig. 37 a, page 35. Pile of the Oval-Haired Species, furcated. 



Fig. 37 b, page 35. Pile of the Eccentrically Elliptical Species, furcated. 



Fig. 38 a, page 35. Pile of the Cylindrical-Haired Species, tri-furcated. 



Fig. 38 b, page 35. Pile of the same, quadra-furcated. 



Fig. 39, page 35. Pile of one of the Oval-Haired Species, so much furcated as to 

 resemble a brush. 



Fig. 40, page 36. "Branched" Pile; a, posterior extremity; b and c, appear to be two 

 separate shafts ; d, a branch of b, and e, a branch of c. 



Fig. 43, page 37. A Ribbon of Cortex, from the Spine of the Pecary. 



Fig. 44, page 37. The Paved Cortex of the Hair of the Elk. 



Fig. 45 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, pages 40 and 41. The Pile of the Three-Toed Sloth. 1, the 

 cortex and the interior, when the cortex is removed; 2, the fissures in the cortex; 3, the 

 grains into which the cortex divides; 4, a disk; 5, tufts of the wool. 



Fig. 46 a, page 41. The Intermediate Fibres of Pile, deprived of the cortex, except in 

 one place left for comparison. 



Fig. 46 , page 41. Fibres of the Hair of one of the Oval-Piled Species. 



Fig. 46 c, page 41. Fibres of a Hair of the same, laboring under the disease of Scro- 

 fula, having separated in the art of drawing the hair out of the head. 



