. The Bible and science. ly look almost like those of a vertebrate, andpowerful locomotive and prehensile organs, which theyare able to wield with great facility. They standdistinctly at the head of the class of Mollusca, but itis impossible to see any sort of likeness between themand the class to which we next come, that of theYertebrata. Just as in the case of the mollusca itself we wereunable to find any connecting link with the highestmembers of the Annulosa, and were obliged to gofar down in the chain before we could meet with anyresemblance, so must we do in the case of the Yer-tebrata a
. The Bible and science. ly look almost like those of a vertebrate, andpowerful locomotive and prehensile organs, which theyare able to wield with great facility. They standdistinctly at the head of the class of Mollusca, but itis impossible to see any sort of likeness between themand the class to which we next come, that of theYertebrata. Just as in the case of the mollusca itself we wereunable to find any connecting link with the highestmembers of the Annulosa, and were obliged to gofar down in the chain before we could meet with anyresemblance, so must we do in the case of the Yer-tebrata also. We can find no relationship betweenthe higher members of the Mollusca and Yertebrata,the cuttlefish and the monkey, but there is a tolerablyclose relation between the low molluscous Ascidianand the Amphioxus, which is the lowest form ofvertebrate animals. LECTURE IX. GENEEAL SKETCH OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM—VERTEBKATA. The Vertebrata are distinguished from all otheranimals by the possession of a bony, jointed internal. Fig. 79.—Single Vertebra seen from above; re. neural canal; c, body of thevertebra; ax, one of the condyles or joints by which it is with thevertebra in front of it (or above it in mar ), skeleton, the most important part of which is thebackbone or spine, consisting of a Vertebral column M 2 164 VERTEBRAL COLUMN. composed of a number of small bones, or vertebrae,jointed together. From each of those bones, projections
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