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dorsal and first lumbar, in which, as well as on the second lumbar, the anapophyses are well 

 marked. The diapophyses are unusually lengthened out in the third lumbar, become shorter 

 in the fourth, and very strong and thick in the fifth lumbar. The neural arch is completed 

 over the fifth as well as the preceding sacral vertebrae. The diapophyses of the first coccygeal 

 vertebrae are unusually developed. The neck of the left thigh bone is longer than that of 



the right. 



Hunterian. 



5906. The skeleton of a female child of unusually stunted growth, who was exhibited 

 in London, in 1824, as a dwarf, under the name of ' Mademoiselle Crachami*.' 



The great fontanelle is unossified. Only the deciduous teeth are in place, of which the 

 first molar above has suffered decay on each side. The right lateral incisor would appear not 

 to have been developed. The maxillo-premaxillary sutures are retained on the palate. The 

 exoccipitals are still distinct from the basioccipital, but have anchylosed with the superocci- 

 pital and with the mastoids. The mastoid tubercles are hardly more developed than the 

 paroccipital ones. The neurapophyses of the atlas are ununited above. The so-called body 

 is still unossified. The odontoid and succeeding bodies of the cervical vertebrae are also inde- 

 pendent elements. The parapophysial and diapophysial parts of the perforated transverse 

 processes are united by dried cartilage, in all these cervical vertebrae. There is no distinct 

 or ossified costal rudiment observable, the foramen appearing to be completed by continuous 

 ossification of the two exogenous elements above mentioned, both of which are here developed 

 from the neurapophysis. The distinction of the centrum from the neural arch is preserved 

 through the rest of the vertebral column. In the first and second sacrals the costal element 

 of the thick transverse process is distinctly shown. Four centres of ossification have been 

 established in the sternum, one for the manubrium and three for the body of that bone. The 

 bones of the extremities exhibit the usual immature characters. 



With this skeleton are preserved casts of the face, of the arm and hand, and of a foot of 

 the same individual. 



Presented by Sir Everard Home, Bart., V.P.R.S. 



See Home, 'Lectures on Comparative Anatomy,' vol. v. p. 191. 



THE END. 



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