The 



Scapula. 



32 DESCRIPTION OP THE SKELETON. . 



without are quite strong, at the place of union, and massive. This fracture 

 is of great importance, as by the union is verified the remark of Cuvier, who 

 found only nineteen ribs, but stated that there would, in his opinion, be 

 hereafter found twenty, — a fact entirely established in this specimen, first, 

 by the articular surface on the side of the twentieth dorsal vertebra ; and, 

 second, by the co-ossification of the nineteenth and twentieth ribs. 



ANTERIOR EXTREMITY. 



The Scapula (Plate XXIII. Fig. 5). — The scapula is of a triangular 

 form, nearly equilateral, and more closely resembling, in this respect, that of 

 man than is that of the Asiatic Elephant. The curved process is also 

 longer than that of the latter, and' forms a large portion of a circle. The 

 situation of the bone in this skeleton is such as to cover the six anterior 

 ribs. Its superior part, or angle, corresponds with the bodies of three of 

 the dorsal vertebra? ; and its inferior part, forming the glenoid cavity, corre- 

 sponds nearly with the anterior piece of the sternum. 



The external face of the scapula (Plate XXY. Fig. 1) is divided very 

 unequally by the spine; the anterior or supra-spinous fossa having less' 

 extent than the posterior, or infra-spinous. The spine, arising from the 

 very thick rough superior angle, is thin at first ; afterwards, the body of 

 the spine being very thin, it becomes thicker and wider ; and, where it 

 divides into its processes, it is six inches broad. The anterior process, cor- 

 responding with the acromion, is short; smooth on the outer, and very 

 rough on the anterior part. This process is ten inches long. The curved 

 process, fourteen inches long, is very rough on its outside, and smooth on 

 the inside. It does not correspond with the human coracoid process, as 



