RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 'In embryos of air-breathg vertebrates are there slits on side of neck' CUL-DAR80.B33 (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

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Man slits on latter

In embryos of air-breathg vertebrates are there slits on side of neck—? (Yes) the arteries do run in loop-like course as if to supply branchiae on the arches.—

p. 66. Give reference to Huxley's last Book. with woodcut.

G. Breschet. (Annales des Sci Nat 2O series. Zoolog. Tome X p. 99 . says in sternum of man 2 little knobs at upper end, sometimes present, & which are rudiment of an end of ribs, properly belonging to the 7th cervical vertebrae.

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