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THE EVOLUTION OF MAN. 



remainder of the body-cavity (cceloma). Of these latter — 

 the true coelom-cells — those vs^hich invest the intestinal 

 tube and the mesentery (" endocoelar ") originate from the 



Pig. 316. — TransTerse section through the pelvic region and the hind 

 limbs of an embryo Chick in the fbnrth day of incubation, enlarged about 

 40 times : Ji, horn-plate ; w, medullary tube ; n, canal of the medullary 

 tube ; u, primitive kidneys ; re, notochord ; e, hind limbs ; b, allantois canal 

 in ventral wall ; t, aorta ; v, cardinal veins ; a, intestine ; d, intestinal- 

 glandular layer ; /, intestinal-fibrous layer ; g, germ-epithelium ; r, dorsal 

 muscles ; c, body-cavity, or Coelom. (After Waldeyer.) 



intestinal-fibrous layer (in Fig. 5, Plate IV., coloured red) ; 

 those which line the inner surface of the external wall of 

 the abdomen (" exocoelar ") are, on the contrary, the product 

 of the skin-fibrous layer (coloured blue in Fig. 5, Plate IV.) ; 

 but the sexual cells which make their appearance at the 

 boundary line between the two forms of ccfilom-cells, and 



