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NOTES ON COMPARATIVE ORGANOTAXIS. | 
By T. C. Hirearp, MD. 7 
“Memento, queso, quod sicut lutum feceris me, et in pulverem redu- 
ces me. Nonne sicut lac mulsisti me, et sicut caseum me coagulasti 
Pelle et carnibus vestisti me: ossibus et nervis compegials me.”—Job X. 
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“ om cometh forth like a flower.” —Jbid, XIV. 2. 
AXIAL OR VERTEBRAL CYCLES. 
Above all, it is necessary to identify the single parts in 
ferent classes of Vertebrata, without which it would spo 
possible to give an intelligible and harmonious nomenclature 
and comparative descriptions. 
_ What. in Masnm alia is simply the vertebral bok, in 
such are, no doubt, the sesamoids insert 
psoas of | : papomemaeld? serine: for the tr artieuli 
8; and eee ‘ 
' ertebra; Third, a of Spa FO es 
_— between, es with soft gees Therefore 
