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as of adult forms ;" that " the morphology of any one 

 organic system in the annulose or vertebrate animal 

 cannot be safely or satisfactorily investigated without 

 constant reference to the others/' on the ground " that 

 all the organic systems are dependent on one another 

 in the constitution of the organism." He further 

 showed that in morphological inquiries into the 

 skeleton, the relations which the vascular and nervous 

 systems bore to the osseous had to be considered, and 

 that those relations aided the inquirer materially in 

 arriving at a proper conception of the morphology of 

 the part. It was in the application of the above 

 principles that he was led to infer that the upper limb 

 was not an appendage of the head, but that its posi- 

 tion was to be regarded as an appendage of the lower 

 part of the neck, as it receives its nervous supply from 

 that part of the spinal cord; and further, that the 

 limb is not necessarily an appendage of a single seg- 

 ment of the body. 



He was in favour of a " more extended and precise 

 system of nomenclature for this department of the 

 science," he offered a new terminology, and gave sub- 

 stantial reasons for its adoption. It may be said of his 

 " sclerotome " that it is more comprehensive than the 

 term " skeleton," and may be more conveniently applied, 

 .•is it embraces a greater number of objects than the 

 word skeleton. Professor Owen, with his characteristic 

 good humour, chaffed Goodsii on his " syssomafomes " 

 being ;i trespass on the domain of the surgeon, who 

 made use of the terminal syllable /"///<• for Borne of his 



