This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...processes; but these processes do not articulate directly with the centra of their respective vertebrae. In B. musculus the first three ribs have these processes; in B. borealis I noticed four; in B. sibbaldii there were again only three, the last two of which were so much longer that they may perhaps articulate ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...processes; but these processes do not articulate directly with the centra of their respective vertebrae. In B. musculus the first three ribs have these processes; in B. borealis I noticed four; in B. sibbaldii there were again only three, the last two of which were so much longer that they may perhaps articulate directly with the centra. Professor Delage has directed attention to the fact that the only rib (the first) which articulates with the sternum does so by two heads; it is first of all attached by an articular surface, and then by a "pseudo-articular" fibrous surface. This double attachment is, it seems, paralleled in Edentates. The sternum of Balcenoptera is usually a somewhat cruciform bone such as is displayed in the figure on p. 44. The cross-like outline is not always so well marked, and differences in the proportions of the limbs of the cross are evident, and are certainly in "Histoiredu Balcenopteramusculus? Arch. Zool. Experim., 18S5, p. 1. some cases due to varying conditions of maturity. Thus Sir W. Flower has figured a sternum of B. borealis, in which the ossified portion consisted only of a roundish piece of bone, the cruciform shape of the entire sternum being, however, shown in the surrounding cartilaginous regions. As to the number of phalanges in the hand of various species of Balcanoptera, the following table from Kukenthal gives the ascertained facts: --But these tables, according to Kukenthal, have to be corrected by his discovery of a rudimentary finger (Fig. 2, p. 9) lying between the third and the fourth of the above enumeration. This consisted in an embryo of Balcenoptera musculus of three slender phalanges lying at the upper (free) end of the interspace between the digits already mentioned. In this case the reput...
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