Excerpt from Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 18: For 1893-94 (With Fifteen Plates); Including Proceedings and Reports In the latter specimen there is complete synostosis of the ungual phalanges of the pollex and index of one manus, and almost complete fusion of their respective claws (fig. On the other side no such fusion occurs. As further evidence of this tendency to synostosis in other parts of the skeleton, beyond the facts already mentioned, it is worthy of note that, in Professor Wilson's specimen, the styloid process of the radius is completely separate, whereas it is firmly ankylosed in my two skeletons. So also in the first rib he finds on one side well-marked evidence of a synchondrosis between the broad expanded sternal end and the more rod-like vertebral moiety. This is not nearly so well marked on the other side, and is not perceptible at all in my specimens. This synchondrosis evidently indicates the fusion of two distinct osseous elements, of which the ventral doubtless represents a sternal rib. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.