624 R- W. SHUFELDT 



On the whole, these limbs are drawn out nearly directly back- 

 ward, just as though the skeleton had been in running water, the 

 stream passing posteriorward, and these pelvic limbs had, before 

 finally settling down, drifted into the positions in which they were 

 eventually preserved; while the pectoral limbs, influenced by the 

 same current, perhaps periodically flowing to and fro, had previously 

 lodged finally in the positions they now are in in their stony matrix. 

 Naturally, the head and neck floated backward with the legs. 



The longitudinal axes of the femora are quite parallel to each 

 other; those of the tibio-tarsi are at a slightly open angle, which is 

 also true of those of the tarso-metatarsi, that is, supposing the 

 imaginary lines of their longitudinal axes to be extended toward 

 the pelvis in each instance. The right femur has its anterior sur- 

 face exposed; the left its latero-internal. In the leg, both fibulae 

 are visible; and in the case of the one on the left side, its proximal 

 head can be plainly seen in the cleft of the external femoral condyle 

 intended for its accommodation and articulation. 



Notwithstanding the fact that the distal condyles are very 

 prominent and the intercondylar valley rather deep, the right tibio- 

 tarsus and fibula evidently have their direct posterior aspects 

 exposed, with the fibula next to the median plane. In other words, 

 these two bones, maintaining their articulatory relations, have once 

 rotated over on their longitudinal axis, while the prominence of the 

 distal condyles, over what they naturally possess on this posterior 

 aspect of the tibio-tarsus, has evidently been produced by trans- 

 verse pressure. 



In the case of the left tibio-tarsus, which likewise has main- 

 tained its mutual and normal articulatory relations, it presents its 

 antero-externo-lateral aspect. 



Either tarso-metatarsus has its almost direct anterior surface 

 exposed, and these are, in each case, thrown but slightly out of 

 place with respect to their articulations with the tibio-tarsi. 



The phalanges of the right pes are exposed almost entirely on 

 mesial aspect, and the bones are all present, the joints of the second 

 toe being seen on their dorsal aspects, which, with the exception of 

 hallux, is the case with all the phalanges of the left foot. Here some 

 of the joints are missing, having been broken off and lost. This is 



