| British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1847 - 662 pages
...of one bone only on each side." — 16. p. 177. The ume reasoning applies to the composite condition of the long tympanic pedicle in fishes. In each case...together of thin flat bones of unequal length and of nrying thickness affords compensation for the weakness and risk of fracture that would otherwise have... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1847 - 606 pages
...177. The "w reasoning applies to the composite condition of the long tympanic pedicle in fishes. h ach case the splicing and bracing together of thin flat bones of unequal length and of 'fyinj thickness affords compensation for the weakness and risk of fracture that would otherr 'f hive... | |
| Richard Owen - Anatomy, Comparative - 1848 - 248 pages
...one bone only on each side." — 16. p. 177. The same reasoning applies to the composite condition of the long tympanic pedicle in fishes. In each case...would otherwise have attended the elongation of the snout. In the abdomen of the crocodile and plesiosaur the analogous composition of the haemapophyses... | |
| Richard Owen - Anatomy, Comparative - 1848 - 338 pages
...one bone only on each aide." — /*. p. 177. The •ame reasoning applies to the composite condition of the long tympanic pedicle in fishes. In each case...compensation for the weakness and risk of fracture 'liāt would otherwise have attended the elongation of the snout. In the abdomen of the crocodile and... | |
| Richard Owen - 1854 - 362 pages
...purport of this subdivision of the lower jaw-bone has been well explained by Conybeare1 and Buckland,2 by the analogy of its structure to that adopted in...compensation for the weakness and risk of fracture that 1 "Geol. Trans.," 1821, p. 565. 2 " Bridgewater Treatise," 1830, vol. ip 176. 10* would otherwise have... | |
| Richard Owen - 1855 - 156 pages
...The same rcasoning applies to the composite strueture of the long tympanic pediele in fishes. In cach case the splicing and bracing together of thin flat...of varying thickness, affords compensation for the wcakness and risk of fraeture that would otherwise have attended the elongation of the parts. In the... | |
| Richard Owen - 1866 - 700 pages
...purport of this subdivision of the lower jaw-bone has been well explained by Conybeare1 and Buckland,2 by the analogy of its structure to that adopted in...of the crocodile the analogous subdivision of the haemapophyses, there called abdominal ribs, allows of a slight change of their length, in the expansion... | |
| Richard Owen - Anatomy, Comparative - 1866 - 734 pages
...purport of this subdivision of the lower jaw-bone has been well explained by Conybeare1 and Buckland,2 by the analogy of its structure to that adopted in...of the crocodile the analogous subdivision of the haemapophyses, there called abdominal ribs, allows of a slight change of their length, in the expansion... | |
| Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 556 pages
...thin flat bones of unequal length and of varying thickness, on both sides of the lower jaw, affords a compensation for the weakness and risk of fracture...would otherwise have attended the elongation of the snout. Mr. Couybeare points out a further beautiful contrivance in the lower jaw of the Ichthyosaurus,... | |
| Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 556 pages
...thin flat bones of unequal length and of varying thickness, on both sides of the lower jaw, affords a compensation for the weakness and risk of fracture...would otherwise have attended the elongation of the snout. Mr. Couybt-are points out a further beautiful contrivance in the lower j»w of the Ichthyosaurus,... | |
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