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of the course here pursued, in instituting a more detailed examination of 

 the skeleton, and of the parts composing it, than is usually adopted in 



works of the present nature. The advantage is self-evident. It must be 

 assumed that Man is the standard, and that, as animals approach or recede 

 from that standard, they approach or recede from the type of animal or- 



