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c. 39. THE CONDITIONAL ACCIDEKT. F. (Forma 

 fort, conditionalis ) is that modification of the organic 

 form, which can have been received only from some 

 particular state or circumstance., under which the 

 original has existed, but which has not been essen- 

 tial to it as an organized body. 



Obs. Hence, the loss of any part, in the original 

 body, gives a conditional form to the reliquium. 

 ' Thus, the absence of one of the valves, in a 

 bivalve shell the decay of the ligneous matter in 

 vegetables, imparting to the fossil subject a struc- 

 ture not essential to the recent wood the want of 

 the body, or head, of the animal, in the entrochus 

 as well as the expanded or contracted state of that 

 part, in such specimens as possess it are all circum- 

 stances, which produce conditional forms, in the re- 

 spective reliqida afforded by those bodies. 



TERMS, 

 discriminating the Reliquium, according toitsjf0r7?i 



and structure. 

 * Essential Form. 

 a. ) 40. Animal (Reliquium animale) having an 



animal form. 

 41. Vegetable (vegetdbile) having a vegetable 



form. 

 b. ) 42. Intrinsic ( intrinsecinn ) having the internal 



texture or fabric of the original. 

 43. Extrinsic (extrinsecum) bearing only the 



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