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CHAPTER XVII ON THE THEORY OF TRANSFORMATIONS, OR THE COMPARISON OF RELATED FORMS

of the very different pelvis of Apatornis are represented in Fig. 389. In Fig. 390 the outlines of these two co-ordinate systems are superposed upon one another, and those of three intermediate and equidistant co-ordinate systems are interpolated between them. From each of these latter systems, so determined by direct interpolation, a complete co-ordinate diagram is drawn, and the corôÙreôÙsponôÙding outline of a pelvis is found from each of

Two distorted grid diagrams from D'Arcy Thompson's "On Growth and Form" showing a transformation of a fish skeleton.

these systems of co-ordinates, as in Figs. 391, 392. Finally, in Fig.

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