614 Cf. Professor Flint, in his Preface to Affleckãs translation of Janetãs Causes finales: ãWe are, no doubt, still a long way from a mechanical theory of organic growth, but it may be said to be the quaesitum of modern science, and no one can say that it is a chimaera.ã
615 Cf. Sir Donald MacAlister, How a Bone is Built, Engl. Ill. Mag. 1884.
616 Professor Claxton Fidler, On Bridge Construction, p. 22 (4th ed.), 1909; cf. (int. al.) Loveãs Elasticity, p. 20 (Historical Introduction), 2nd ed., 1906.
617 In preparing or ãmaceratingã a skeleton, the naturalist nowadays carries on the process till nothing is left but the whitened bones. But the old anatomists, whose object was not the study of ãcomparativeã morphology but the wider theme of comparative physiology, were wont to macerate by easy stages; and in many of their most instructive preparations, the ligaments were intentionally left in connection with the bones, and as part of the ãskeleton.ã
618 In a few anatomical diagrams, for instance in some of the drawings in Schmaltzãs Atlas der Anatomie des Pferdes, we may see the system of ãtiesã diaôÙgramôÙmaôÙtiôÙcally inserted in the figure of the skeleton. Cf. Gregory, On the principles of Quadrupedal Locomotion, Ann. N. Y. Acad. of Sciences, XXII, p. 289, 1912.