Elementary anatomy and physiology : for colleges, academies, and other schools elementaryanato00hitc Year: 1869 102 HITCHCOCK'S ANATOMY 221. Head.—The bones of the Head in this class of ani- mals are numerous and exceedingly complicated, being in fact a difficult portion of study in comparative osteology. It is, however, a subject of great interest to a thorough scholar of this branch of anatomy ; but as so little of it can be gen- eralized, it must be omitted altogether. 222. Great Variety of Teeth.—The Teeth present every possible variety in position and size, and, as Sir Richard Owen
Elementary anatomy and physiology : for colleges, academies, and other schools elementaryanato00hitc Year: 1869 102 HITCHCOCK'S ANATOMY 221. Head.—The bones of the Head in this class of ani- mals are numerous and exceedingly complicated, being in fact a difficult portion of study in comparative osteology. It is, however, a subject of great interest to a thorough scholar of this branch of anatomy ; but as so little of it can be gen- eralized, it must be omitted altogether. 222. Great Variety of Teeth.—The Teeth present every possible variety in position and size, and, as Sir Richard Owen says, 'they average in number from zero to count- Fig. 114. Hea<t of the Pike. c. Cranium, n. Nasal Fossze. im. Intermaxillary Bone. Upper Jaw. p., io. Bones peculiar to the head of fishes. less quantities.' Some teeth, in shape and lob&ckm re- semble the pavement of the street, others are of a delicate hook-shape, and others still are fine as hairs, and are located Fig. 115.
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