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MR. F. E. BEDDAUB ON 



[Feb. 18, 



this apj)ear,s to me to be the case. In llyrax thei'e is still a 

 considerable trace of the carpal sense-organ, present (?) in the 

 ancesti'al Ungulates, which had not completely left off the use of 



Text-fig. 21. 



Left fore foot of llyrax ; ventral svirface. 

 H anterior, H' x^osterior vibrissa?. 



their fore limbs as grasping- organs ; but it is evidently under- 

 going degeneration, and has finally disappeared in the newer forms 

 of Ungulates. At least it has disappeai'ed, so far as my 



