ClUp. I, 
KUDIMENTS. 
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j? e |f e ® U PP r ® ss ^ on °f a part, already useless and much 
eco 1Cet IU 8 * Ze ’ ™ wb * cb case neither compensation nor 
ti le Q °® y can come into play, is perhaps intelligible by 
in aU 1 °* ^ ie hypothesis °i' pangenesis, and apparently 
tarv° ° Gr " a ' r ‘ b ' u t as the whole subject of rudimen- 
; n y 01 ’gans has been fully discussed ' and illustrated 
1‘eirP lormer wor i iS /° I need here say no more on this 
^Rudiments of various muscles have been observed in 
wh' 1 .! ^ aitS ^ ie human b °dy > 21 ail d not a few muscles, 
are regularly present in some of the lower ani- 
red ^ C ^ n occasiouaU y be detected in man in a greatly 
. )() J lCe c pndition. Every one must have noticed the 
of m 1 • cb nrany animals, especially horses, possess 
jj V 0Vln g or twitching their skin ; and this is effected 
in an^ i' aunb ' ubls carnosus. Remnants of this muscle 
bo di n ! state are found in various parts of our 
’ r or instance, on the forehead, by which the 
devel ' JU S | U ' e ra ' se<b d’lic flaiysma myoides, which is well 
Turn 0Pe •° U ne,jb > belongs to this system. Prof, 
inform^ ° hdinljurgh, has occasionally detected, as he 
tion ■ S Uie ’ UlUs cular fasciculi in five different situa- 
which name ^ ' n ^ 1C ax dla‘) near the scapulae, &c., all of 
He h' IQ, j St ' J0 re terred to the system of the panniculus. 
Kalis T a S ° sbe " n 22 ^at the musculus sternalis or ster- 
dljcio ni/orum ’ which is not an extension of the rectus 
m inalis, but is closely allied to the panniculus, oc- 
20 < ~tr . 
PP. 317 and 39 7 of and Plants under Domestication,’ vol. ii. 
21 For install . m also ‘ 0rl & 111 of Species,’ Stir edit. p. 535. 
Zoolog. 1S52 t 6 .tUohftrd (‘ Aunales des Sciences Nat.’ 3rd series, 
116 calls the’“ l?' P ' deseribcs alul figures rudiments of wliat 
" ‘“fiuiment n eti ,n 6 P* lieux tle ,a main •” which he says is sometimes 
generally quite / Another muscle, called “le tibial posterieur,” is 
ft0 , re or less rudim, m the lland ’ but a PP ears from time to time in a 
Prof, w t ‘ ary c 0111111 '""- 
uiiur, ‘Proe. Xtoyal Soc. Edinburgh,’ 1866-67, p. 65. 
