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certain fossil deer appear to have had antlers 

 which v. js implicated; and in others the 



antlers were more complicated. It is on such 

 cha - of deer are distinguished. 



All the higher forms of life which are dis- 

 guished in classification, an rds oi l< ss. 



Thus there can he no doubt that the common 



I to the fossil horse named 



a hich had tl h foot, and 



the still pre- idiments of the 



- which have 1- st, m the splint 



r at the sid ach cannon 



been made to show that 



the three-toed horse had a - with five I 



hat by loss of the dij t, which 



es of the ways in which the I 



v pres- 

 ent "V little in the way of tact out of 

 which such a history COllld he constructed. 



m only be carried on, <>n a h un- 



whieh are to the 

 .in what capital is to the merchant. 

 re IS, 1: . n<> doubt that the mammals 



have lo>t the com] structure of the loi 



jaw, which is found in reptiles; and that rep: 

 have lost t: iter part of the arch of 



which in fishes intei I the brain C 



and the iw, if their structures are inherited 



from one group to the other. 



