S K E 



S K E 



6i. Firll phalanx 1 



62. Second phalanx J-of the little-finger. 



63. Third phalanx J 



Lower Extremities. 



64. Thigh-bone. 



65. Its neck. 



66. Trochanter major. 



67. Trochanter minor. 

 6S. External condyle. 



69. Internal condyle, 



• Semilunar cartilage. 



70. Tibia. 



71. Its external condyle. 



72. Its internal condyle. 



73. Internal malleolus. 



74. Fibula. 



75. Its head. 



76. External malleoluJ. 



77. Aftragalus. 



78. Os caleis. 



79. Os cuboideum. 



80. Os naviculare. 



81. Os cuneiforme primum. 



82. fecundum. 



83. tertium. 



84. Metatarfal bone of the great toe. 



85. ■ fecond toe. 



86. third toe. 



87. — fourth toe. 



88. fifth toe. 



89. 

 90. 



Sefamoid bones. 



91. Firft phalanx of the great toe. 



92. fecond toe. 



93. third toe. 



94. Second phalanx of the third toe. 



95. Firft phalanx of the fourth toe. 



96. Second phalanx of the fourth toe. 



97. Third phalanx of the fourth toe. 



98. Firll phalanx of the fifth toe. 



99. Second phalanx of the fifth toe. 

 100. Third phalanx of the fifth toe. 



For the anatomy of the (Iveleton, fee Chefclden's Ofteo- 

 graphia, or the Anatomy of the Bones, fol. ; Traite d'Of- 

 teologie, traduit de I'Anglois de Mr. Monro, &c. par Mr. 

 Sue, 2 vols. fol. ; C. J. Trew, Tabulx Ofteologise, 1767, 

 fol.; Albinus de Oflibus Corporis Humani, 1726, 8vo. ; 

 Albinus de Sceleto Humano, 1762, 4to. ; Albinus Tabulx 

 Sceleti & Mufculoruni, 1747, fol.; Albinus Tabula; Of- 

 liiim, 1763, fol.; Albinus Icones Ofilum Fcetus, 1737, 

 4to. ; Albinus AnnotationcB Academicx, 4to. ; Soemmer- 

 liitr Tabula Sceleti Fcminei, junfta Defcriptione, fol. ; 

 ■mmerring de Corporis Fabrica, t. i. ; .1. G. Walter von 

 trocknen Knochcn, 1763, 8vo. ; .). F. Blumenbach, 

 Gcfchichte und Bcfchrtibung der Knochcn, 1786, 8vo. ; 

 Bertin Olleologie, 4 torn. 8vo. ; Boehmer Inftitutiones 

 Ofteologicae, 8vo. 



We have, in the Philofophical Tranfaftions, an account 

 of a human (kclcton, all the bones of which were fo united, 

 as to make but one articulation from the back to the o» 

 facrum, and downwards a little way. On fawing fome of 

 them, where they were unnaturally joined, they were found 

 not to cohere throughout their whole fubllance, but only 

 about a fixth of an iiieh deep all round. The figure of the 

 trunk was crooked, the fpine making the convex, and the 

 infide of the Tertebrse the concave part of the fegment. 



The whole had been found in a charnel-houfe, and was of 

 the fize of a full-grown perfon. 



Skeleton, Vegetable. The preparations of leaves, fruits, 

 roots, &c. called vegetable Ikeletons, are made in this man- 

 ner. Choofe for this purpofe the leaves of trees or plants, 

 which are fomewhat fubftantial and tough, and have woody 

 fibres, fuch as the leaves of orange, jafmine, bay, laurel, 

 cherry, apricot, peach, plum, apple, pear, poplar, oak, 

 and the like ; but avoid fuch leaves as have none of the 

 woody fibres, which are to be feparated and preferved by 

 this method ; fuch are the leaves of the vine, lime-tree, and 

 the like. The leaves are to be gathered in the months of 

 June or July, and fuch to be chofeii as are found and un- 

 touched by caterpillars, or other infefts. Thefe are to be 

 put into an earthen or glafs vefliel, and a large quantity of 

 rain-water to be poured over them ; and after this they are 

 to be left to the open air, and to the heat of the fun, with- 

 out covering the vefliel. When the water evaporates, fo as 

 to leave the leaves dry, more mull be added in its place : the 

 leaves will by this means putrefy, but they require a dif- 

 ferent time for this ; fome will be finilhcd in a month, and 

 others will require two months or longer, according to the 

 hardnefs of the parenchyma of them. When they have been 

 in a itateuf putrefaflion fome time, the two membranes will 

 begin to feparate, and the green part of the leaf to become 

 fluid : then the operation of clearing is to be performed. 

 The leaf is then to be put upon a flat white earthen plate, 

 and covered with clear water; and being gently fqueezed 

 with the finger, the membranes will begin to open, and the 

 green fubllance will come out at the edges ; the membranes 

 mull be carefully taken off with a finger, and great caution 

 muft be ufed in feparating them near the middle rib. When 

 once there is an opening towards this feparation, the whole 

 membrane always follows eafily : when both membranes 

 are taken off, the fkeleton is finiihed, and it is to be wafhed 

 clean with water, and then preferved between the leaves of 

 a book. 



The fruits are divefted of their pulp, and made into (kele- 

 tons in a different manner. Take, for inilance, a fine large 

 pear that is foft, and not ftrong ; let it be nicely pared 

 without fqueezing it, and without hurting cither the crown 

 or the ftalk ; then put it into a pot of rain-water, cover it, 

 fet it over the fire, and let it boil gently till it is perfeAly 

 foft, then take it out, and lay it in a di(h, filled with cold 

 water ; then hold it by the lialk with one hand, and with 

 the other hand rub off as much of the pulp as you can with 

 the finjrer and thumb, beginning at the Italk, and rubbing 

 it regularly towards the crown. The fibres are moll tender 

 toward the extremities, and therefore to be treated with 

 great care there. When the pulp is thus cleared pretty 

 well o£F, the point of a fine penknife may be of ufe to pick 

 away the pulp ilicking to the core. In order to fee how 

 the operation advances, the foul water muft be thrown away 

 from lime to time, and clean poured on in its place. When ■ 

 the pulp is in this manner perfectly feparated, the clean 

 flceleton is to be preferved in fpirit of wine. 



Skeletons of roots which have woody fibres, fucli as tur- 

 nips, and the like, muft be made by boiling the root, with- 

 out pcelin'.r it, till it be foft, that the pulp may be Iqueezed 

 away by the fingers in the fame manner, in a dirti of water. 

 Many kinds of roots arc thus made into elegint (keletons, 

 and the fame method fucceeds with the barks of leveral 

 kinds of trees ; which, when thus treated, afford extremely 

 elegant views of their conftituent fibres. Dulol. Tranl. 

 N^4i6. 



SKELIGS, TheThree, in Geovraphy, iilands in the At- 



lantic ocean, about 7 miles W. of Bolus Head, county of 



4 Kerry, 



