APPENDIX I 



As for this unfinished work, sagg^tiTe ontHnes left 



for others to fill in, ProfesBor Howes ■writes to me in 

 October 1899 :— 



CJoncenung the papeis at S^ wfaidi, as port of tlie 

 : :.t£ of TOOT Other's book-dielTes, were giTen by him 

 ''' '" . ajid now are azxaziged, nomJbeied, and 

 __ _^ .:_rr tat use, there ie evidence dial; in 1658 

 :rh his needles and ejcglasB, had dissected and care- 

 fully figmed the eo-ealled pionephzoB of the Fred's tadpole, 

 in a manner whidh as to aaearaxj of detail antidpated 

 later disooTeij. Ag ain, in the earlr 'BO'S, he had ofaeerved 

 and recoided in a drawing the praB-pohnanajy aortic aidi 

 of the Amphibian, at a pexiod antedating the leseazdieB 

 of Boas, which in oonneetion with, its diseoray plaeed 

 the whole sabject of the morphology ot the pnTmonary 

 artery of the Tertebrata on its final haias, and hmn^xt 

 harmony into onr ideas eonceming it. 



Boib. these Eobjeete lie at the root of modem advances 

 in vertebrate morphology. 



Concerning the sknU, he was in tie '60's back to it 

 with a win. His line of attai^ was thioa^ the lamprep 

 and hags and tiie higher carHlagiwoiB fidies, and he was 

 foUonring op a reTolntionaiy conception (already hintfd 

 at in his Hanterian Leetmes in 1864, and later in a 

 Bqyal Society paper on Am^ikiaacMS in 1875), that the 

 trabecolae cranii, judged by tKeir relation^ps to the 



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