Volume 1

Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology and dentition of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England / by William Henry Flower.

  • William Henry Flower
Date:
1879-84]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology and dentition of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England / by William Henry Flower. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    developed, but the posterior molars are not yet in place. The left lower milk-molar is retained. Hunterian. 62. The femur of a young person, longitudinally bisected, to show the internal structure and the detached epiphyses of the head, great trochanter, and lower articular extremity. The epiphysis forming the lesser trochanter is partially united to the shaft. Purchased. 63. A similar preparation of a tibia, showing the epiphyses at both extremities. Probably from the same person as the last. Purchased. 64. The pelvis of a young child. Presented hy G. W. Mackmurdo, Esc[., 1867. 65. The pelvis of a child. Presented hy G. W. Mackmxirdo, Esq., 1867. 66. The pelvis of a young person, probably female, in which the three elements of the innominate bone have not com- pletely coalesced. Presented hy G. W. Mackmurdo, Esq., 1867. B. Osteology of Adult Man. In this series are arranged specimens which are either normal or show only slight individual peculiarities, i. e. deviations from the normal condition not sufficiently marked to be included in the Teratological Series*. 67. The articulated skeleton of a male European. 0. C. 5569. Height 1715=5 feet 7*5 inches. Clavicle 157, humerus 340, radius 256, femur 482, tibia 378. Cranium : circumference 527, length 186, breadth 140, index of breadth 753, height ] 31, index of height 704, capacity 1470. Hunterian. * For these see the ' Descriptive Catalogue of the Teratological Series,' 1872. It need scarcely be said that it is impossible to draw any definite line between individual peculiarity and actual malformation. In arranging and cataloguing a museum convenience in the disposition of the specimens has often to be taken into consideration.