RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1847.01. Abstract of Owen on Petit Lachrymal. CUL-DAR74.36. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2021. RN1
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Jan 47. Owen says of the Petit Lachrymal of Em Rousseau that these bones belong to the Dermal system; that in fishes & others a passage for mucus & eye in whole inside; in some others none, in some two or three; so that this little division cannot be considered as the representation of any one bone – but may be described as the vestige of a system present in fishes & (Reptile?) & have rudimentary & very variable.
The little maxillary bone of [Breslet] is a mere division ing to the greater or large size of a nerve – What bone is in Horses
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leg which is often present & often absent in that representative of some true system.—
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