of the Shoulder -girdle of Fishes. 



Ill 



It will thus be seen that the determinations here adopted 

 depend mainly (1) on the interpretation of the homologies of 

 the elements with which the pectoral limbs are articulated, and 

 (2) on the application of the term " coracoid." The name 

 " coracoid," originally applied to the process so called in the 

 human scapula, and subsequently extended to the independent 

 element homologous with it in birds and other vertebrates, has 

 Ijcen more especially retained (e. //. by Parker in mannnals 

 &c.) for the region including the glenoid cavity. (3n the 

 assum])tion that this may lie preferred by most zootomists, the 

 jireceding terms have been ajipliech But if the name should 

 be restricted to the proximal element nearest the gleni)id 



* The name scapula might have been retained for this element, as it is 

 (if the views here maintained are correct) homologous -with the entire sca- 

 pula of man, less the coracoid and glenoid elements ; but the restricted 

 meaning has been so universally ndoptod, th.af it wouM he inex]iO(lient 

 now to extend the word. 



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