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with great cartilaginous epiphyses, which in the bones 

 of the fossil animals we are considering have not been 

 petrified and preserved, but making all allowance for the 

 existence of these cartilaginous masses at the points in- 

 dicated, it is impossible to conceive that the broad ex- 

 panded heads of the tibia and fibula should merely come 

 in contact with the internal and external condyles of the 

 femur at two small points, in each case not larger than a 

 sixpence. The pose given to these bones by Dr. Tornier 

 represents nothing else than the complete dislocation 

 of the femur from the tibia and fibula. 



Dr. Tomier labors long with the scapula and the 

 humerus. As I have already stated, he claims that the 

 humerus of Diplodocus is startlingly— "verbluffend"— 

 like that of Varanus. It is wonderful what a man can 

 see who has determined to see things ! If you will sim- 

 ply take the trouble to compare the humerus of the 

 sauropod dinosaurs with 

 that of a Varanus I think 

 you will be able without 

 opening your eyes very 

 widely to discover a num- 

 ber of startling differ- 

 ences. In addition to fall- 

 ing into error as to the 

 startling likeness existing 

 between the humerus in 

 the sauropoda and the 

 I ace rt ilia, he makes a 

 multitude of grossly in- 

 accurate and misleading 

 statements in uttering 

 the special plea which he 

 makes for his theory. It would be wearisome to recall 

 them. One of the more noticeable misstatements is made 

 when he declares that the coracoid bone belongs on the 

 lower side of the belly— "Bauchunterseite." The cor- 

 acoid, as we all know, is a sternal element and has noth- 

 ing whatever to do with the "Banch," or belly. He 



