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in ungulates prevents this central fossette from appearing as an 
eminence on the outside of the skull, and in the dolphins the crest 
een it and the cerebellar fossettes is not prominent, but the 
vermian fossette is absent only in the orang, chimpanzee, gorilla, 
and man. In all these it appears occasionally. It was first four 
in man by Cesare Lanbroso (1871), in the skull of a criminal, 
and has since been frequently noted in criminals, madmen, and in- 
ferior races, especially among the Aymara, whence it has been 
called the “aymarian fossette.” Its occurrence in the higher 
apes and man must therefore be considered as a mark of atavism. 
avillage. It was about ten feet above the ground, resembled the 
nest of a large bird of prey, and was unprotected above. The 
n 
Microscopical Society, June 11, Mr. Hazlewood called attention 
uman spermatozoa with two tails. I 
July 7, before the French Academy on the results of his dissec- 
tion of a Bosjesman from twelve to fourteen years old. The mus- 
cular system was in a more or less rudimentary state, which exists 
in a normal condition in various anthropoid apes and monkeys, 
and in some instances even in mammals of other orders. M. de 
Quatrefages in his remarks attempted to point out that these facts 
Supplied no fresh arguments in favor of man’s descent from a 
imitan prototype. 
PHYSIOLOGY.’ 
IN vain chiefly on account of the large number of diverse forms 
of bacteria found in the intestines of cholera patients. But finally 
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