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tlie same with individual fibfes comprising a fasciculus. 

 The arrangement of the fibres of tendons was also in 

 conformity with that observed to regulate the muscles, 

 where the fasciculi and fibres do not proceed in one 

 direction only, but are arranged in series of bundles 

 whose form is triangular, and that they overlap each 

 other at their apices.'"" 



Goodsir had section after section of bone made 

 with the view of examining the direction of the 

 Haversian canals and the arrangement of the fibres of 



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the solid osseous texture, also the direction of the 

 tendinous and muscular fibres attached to the bony 

 surface. By placing black bristles in the minute 

 foramina visible upon the surface of the different 

 sections, the oblique direction of these foramina, and 

 the canals into which they open, either from below 

 up wards, or vice versd, was well shown, and the spaces 

 between these bristles appeared triangular. People 

 were disposed to smile at his anatomical minutiae, yet 

 those who looked narrowly at the same structures saw 

 the same markings. Had he thought of it, he might 

 have silenced opposition by citing the presence of a 

 mere spicule of bone on the inner side of the humerus, 

 leading Knox to prophesy a supra-condyloid foramen, 

 as showing what a detective eye and responsive brain 

 can do in elucidating Nature's types. He showed 

 great facility in tracing lines and facets on osseous 

 and other surfaces, in the same way as Sir David 



* Dr. Bair, b Pk ector to the cla i, assisted Professor <• lair in these 



dissections. Bis own ohservations on the muscular fibres of the allL 

 (Jov/rnal of Anatomy and i) . v.il. ii) are interesting. 



