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Owen. March 46

Says little wings of Apterix (which are perfect except in size) have been seen in 7 or 8 cases & have always been similar - so that hind legs in Boa quite similar. He says I must refer to man for possibility of numerous many examples — says in perhaps 1 out of 200 skeletons the transverse process of lowest cervical vertebræ is partially developed into rib but I do not quite understand case - why this analogue of rib is being developed more than any other of the cervical vertebræ. Does not seem to think false ribs can be called rudimentary

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Grand views about our limbs being ribs about Palæotherium & Anoplotherium being probably of his two new orders of equal & unequal toed Rum & Pach. I saw in Brit. Mus. a fossil connecting Dugong & Hippopotamus making it still clearer that former bears to latter relation which seals do to other carnivora.

In Owen Odontography capital drawing of fœtal teeth in whale XX Palæotherium most striking case of a form like the ancestral form of a group, descending to present day (Macrauchenia) & in India & so many go as far back in time. (it is important that preservation of land animals in strata seems always connected with great lakes or estuaries. (Cop)