The hand : its mechanism and vital endowments, as evincing design, and illustrating the power, wisdom, and goodness of God . AUa-BONE OF BEAR. 72 COMPARATIVE ANATOMY chap. in. we conclude that it belonged to an animal with sharpmoveable claws; that, in all probability, it is theremains of a bear. But, suppose that the upper head of the bone hasa different character: that the tubercles project, so asto limit the motion in every direction but one, and. AEM-BONE OF HORSE. that the articulating surface is less regularly inspecting the lower extremity of such a bone,we shall perceive that
The hand : its mechanism and vital endowments, as evincing design, and illustrating the power, wisdom, and goodness of God . AUa-BONE OF BEAR. 72 COMPARATIVE ANATOMY chap. in. we conclude that it belonged to an animal with sharpmoveable claws; that, in all probability, it is theremains of a bear. But, suppose that the upper head of the bone hasa different character: that the tubercles project, so asto limit the motion in every direction but one, and. AEM-BONE OF HORSE. that the articulating surface is less regularly inspecting the lower extremity of such a bone,we shall perceive that the grooves into which the bonesof the fore-arm are socketed, are hollowed out sodeei)ly, that the joint could only have the motion of asimple hinge ; and neither the form of the articulatingsurface, (which is here called trochlea,) nor the crestor spine above noticed on the outside, will present anysigns of one bone of the fore-arm having rotated on CHAP. III. OF THE HUMEEUS. 73 the other. We have, therefore, got the hone of anherbivorous quadruped, either with a sohd, or with acloven foot. In the bat and mole, perhaps, the best examples areseen of the bones of the extremity being moulded tocorrespond with the condition of the animal. The
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