124 Scientific Inteiligence. 
to the origin of anatomy in the investigation of the human — in 
relation to the relief and cure of disease and injuries; and to 
sequent creation of an anatomical nomenclature, havin rofl 
solely to the forms, Se a likenesses and supposed functions of 
the parts of the hum ody; which were originally studied from an 
— point of seis and irrespective of any other animal structure 
any common type. So, sea the veterinary surgeon had began 
i study of the anatomy of the horse in an equally independent man- 
ner, and had given as ocean naines to the parts which he observed. 
Thus, in the head of a horse there was the “os quadratum;” and in 
the *“*coronet,” and * coffin-bones,” &c. the naturalist first 
sought to penetrate beneath the superficial characters < the: objects of 
his stu y, their anatomy had often been conduc n the same in- 
describes his ‘‘ ossa homoidea,” ‘‘ ossa communicantia” seu * inter- 
articularia,” his “ columella,” his “os furcatorium” and * os quadra- 
tum,” the latter being quite a distinct bone from the “ os auaidensei? 
is the. ‘hippot omist. The anatomizer of reptiles described ‘ hatchet- 
bones” and “chevron-bones,” an ‘ os cinguliforme” or ‘ os en ceit- 
whi a bone distinct from that so called in the bird. The icthy- 
otomist escribed the “os disco eum,” “ os tra ersum,” “os coen 
eon,”” “os aceum,” “ ossa simplectica,” “prima,” “ secunda, é 
me, frof. 
eevee to prvbaaald sath the pineal results of the philosophical ee 
i ists, in tracing the 
ead. When any bones in the human skull, for example, had bee 
thus traced and determined in the skulls o the lower sorta biatle ani- 
name in human anatomy, but was indicated, as often happened, bya 
descriptive phrase, it received a name having a close relation to such 
times homologues ; the latter being the appropriat case since the > 
are in ieee namesakes. —_ essential difference between the relations 
the siaicloun of the sic and modern flying dragons. The wings 
the extinct pterddactyle were sustained by a thodihestion of | 
