136 Mr. H. G. Seeley on Prof. Owen's 
the text which describes the limit of the premaxillary bones 
is equally erroneous. Yet, notwithstanding this statement, 
rof. Owen continues, in the next sentence: ‘ Both bones 
combine to support the array of teeth ; they have coalesced, at 
least at their external or faci-alveolar plates, as likewise have 
the right and left premaxillary portions forming the fore end 
of the upper jaw. e suture between this premaxillo- 
maxillary bone and the suborbital portion of the zygomatic 
arch remains. Accordingly there is a choice of analogies in 
the interpretation of the observed facts : a portion of the com- 
pound bone may be assigned to the premaxillary, according 
to the analogy of the crocodile and lizard ; or the whole may be 
called premaxillary, according to the analogy of the Ichthyo- 
saur.” If the latter part of this paragraph 1s true, it convicts 
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