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spoken of bj such excellent men — what was, I 

 believe, first hinted at by Haney, and afterwards 

 shadowed forth by John Hunter — that this writer 

 applies the appellation of " a monstrous scheme, 

 from first to last nothing but a pile of wildly gra- 

 tuitous hypotheses." 



This reviewer and others have been eager to 

 point out that " no anatomist has observed the 

 shadow of any change assimilating the nascent 

 embrjo to any of the radiata, mollusca, or articu- 

 lata. Thus are three whole classes [divisions] of 

 the animal kingdom, passed over without any cor- 

 responding foetal tA'pe, and in defiance of the law 

 of development." The writer here states what 

 is not true, if any faith is to be placed in one 

 of the first authorities of the age, and one upon 

 which he himself depends ; for have we not seen 

 Mr. Owen on the last page affirming that the 

 human embrjo is first vermiform ? — this meaning 

 the form of the worms, a portion of the class 

 Annelides, in one of these lower divisions. That 

 all these divisions or sub-kingdoms are not repre- 

 sented in the hmnan embrjo is an objection per- 

 fectly visionary, for it is not necessary that all 

 should be involved in the ancestry, and therefore 

 analogies to all are not to be looked for. It may 



