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lizard's neck (i K), or the lizard's loins (L M). 

 Now as all the units of these several regions 



A B, c D, the neck and loins of the ostrich ; E F, 

 the human cervix, with cervical ribs ; G H, the 

 loins of a mammal ; i K, the neck of a lizard ; 

 L M, the loins of a saurian (crocodile) ; N o, a 

 part of the ophidian thoracic skeleton. 



of the same and of different species, evidently 

 illustrate the simple law of the archetypal 

 plus ens of the thoracic sterno-costo-vertebral 

 quantity, undergoing a graduated metamor- 

 phosis into less quantities of a neck or loins, 

 so I have equated in dotted outline, all those 

 parts which the minus quantities have ac- 

 tually lost ; and thus 1 have in idea given 

 creation to their whole or plus originals ; and 

 the reader will observe that by this very mode 

 of equation between the plus and minus seg- 

 ments Of A B, C D, E F, G H, I K, L M, I have 



equated them likewise with the plus series 

 N o, which represents part of the ophidian 

 thoracic skeletal axis. The fact likewise may 

 be noticed in this place, which will be more 

 fully considered hereafter, that in fig. G u the 

 parts b, c, d, which are represented in dotted 

 outline as the quantity lost to the shortened 

 ribs a, a, are those very structures which in 

 the saurian venter opposite its lumbar spine 

 L M, appear as the ventral ribs (c, c), joining 

 a ventral sternum (d, d) ; and there appears 

 ventrad of the saurian cervix (i K) that series 

 of osseous pieces marked c, d, amongst which 

 I find the bones (c*c*), known as clavicles 

 and coracoids. Are these clavicles and cora- 

 coid bones which appear ventrad of the cer- 

 vical spine, in reality only as persistent parts 

 of the whole sterno-costo-vertebral arche- 

 types ? 



Fig. 460. 



A, the seventh cervical vertebra of the human neck ; 

 B, the seventh of a bird's neck ; c, the seventh of 

 a serpent's spinal axis; D, the seventh cervical 

 vertebra of the human neck, producing a, b, the 

 cervical ribs ; E F, G H, vertebral segments of the 

 ostrich, taken from the caudex E, neck F, loins G, 

 and thorax H. 



When I compare all those spinal regions of 

 several species of animals represented in 



