herent of the Theory of Development 

 infhiding Man, most lie traced from a angle common 

 parent-form, from a Primitive Vertebrate: far the mer- 

 plmlngir*! features of the inner skeleton, and of the mus- 

 cular system whkh stands in the ekaesfc correlative rela- 

 tions to it, are of such a kind that h is 

 to conceive a polyphyletic 



to accept the theory thai the vertebral cofamm with its 

 various appendages, or the skeleton of the limbs with their 



and thai, consequently, the 

 referred in various fines of 

 Indeed, ik is exactly in this point that Comparative Anatomy 

 and Ontogeny irresistibly drive us to the monophvktic 

 that the hmian ra is a very recent offsh,x* 



of the same great sin^e trunk, from branches of which aU 

 other Vertebrates have also sprang. 



In order to obtain a TOW of the outlines of the develop- 

 ment of the human skeleton, we must first take a general 

 survey of its arrangement in the developed Mam (QC 

 Table XXXIV. and R- 51, the 



