THE MISSOURIUM. 9 
the coronoid process, 1 foot 52 inches; the height of the 
ramus, 74 inches; the length of the posterior molar, 7 inches; 
its breadth 44 inches; the length of the second molar, 54 inches; 
its breadth 4 inches. 
MEASUREMENT OF THE DIFFERENT BONES CONTAINED IN 
THE SKELETON. 
The first rib, 2 feet in length; 6 inches m its widest part ; 
the longest rib mersures 5 feet 6§ inches in length; the last 
rib, 2 feet 4 inches in length; the largest of the dorsal verte- 
bree, 24 feet; the scapula, or shoulder blade, 3 feet 1 inch in 
length, and 2 feet 7 inches in breadth; the humerus or fore 
arm, length 3 feet 5§ inches; its greatest circumference 3 feet 
3 inches, and its smallest part measures 2 feet 7 inches in cir- 
cumference; the ulna is 2 feet 74 inches long; the radius is 
2 feet 3? inches long; the carpal articulating surface is 53 
inches broad; other articulating surface, 63 inches. The pelvis 
measures from the anterior superior spine to the edge of the 
pubis, at the symphysis, 3 feet 7 inches, which gives a total 
breadth of the pelvis of 7 feet 2 inches; the circumference of 
each bone of the pelvis is 13 feet 4 inches. 
The femur, or thigh bone, is 4 feet 3 inch long, 83 inches 
in diameter; in the middle of its shaft the neck of the thigh 
bone is 74 inches in diameter; the head of this is 84 inches in 
diameter. The transverse diameter of the articulating surfaces 
or condyles of the femur is 10 inches; that is, each condyle 
measures 5 inches. 
The tibia and fibula or leg bones.—The tibia is 2 feet 43 
inches long; 11 inches broad at its superior portion, and 8 
inches at the inferior part; its diameter in the middle of the 
shaft is 5} inches. The fibula—the whole length of this bone 
is 2 feet 63 inches. 
The tail is composed of thirteen vertebra, and is very short 
in proportion to the body of the animal, its whole length 
measuring only 2 feet 73 inches, but has been very broad and 
flat, and possessed of great strength. 
_ The fore foot has four toes and a thumb: the longest toe 
measures 1 foot 3 inches, the shortest, 11 inches; the thumb, 
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