582 Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. VII, p. 397, 1872; Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. XXVI, p. 505, 1870ã71.
583 A common form of pail-shaped waste-paper basket, with wide rhomboidal meshes of cane, is well-nigh as good a model as is required.
584 Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift, p. 261, 1868.
585 Memoirs of Amer. Acad. IX, p. 389.
598 In so far as our explanation involves a shaping or moulding of the egg by the uterus or ãoviductã (an agency supplemented by the proper tensions of the egg), it is curious to note that this is very much the same as that old view of Telesius regarding the formation of the embryo (De rerum natura, VI, cc. 4 and 10), which he had inherited from Galen, and of which Bacon speaks (Nov. Org. cap. 50; cf. Ellisãs note). Bacon expressly remarks that ãTelesius should have been able to shew the like formation in the shells of eggs.ã This old theory of embryonic modelling survives only in our usage of the term ãmatrixã for a ãmould.ã
628 This and the following diagrams are borrowed and adapted from Professor Fidlerãs Bridge Construction.
633 This pose of Diplodocus, and of other Sauropodous reptiles, has been much discussed. Cf. (int. al.) Abel, O., Abh. k. k. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, V. 1909ã10 (60 pp.); Tornier, SB. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, pp. 193ã209, 1909; Hay, O. P., Amer. Nat. Oct. 1908; Tr. Wash. Acad. Sci. XLII, pp. 1ã25, 1910; Holland, Amer. Nat. May, 1910, pp. 259ã283; Matthew, ibid. pp. 547ã560; Gilmore, C. W. (Restoration of Stegosaurus). Pr. U.S. Nat. Museum, 1915.
634 The form of the cantilever is much less typical in the small flying birds, where the strength of the pelvic region is insured in another way, with which we need not here stop to deal.
641 Reprinted, with some changes and additions, from a paper in the Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. L, pp. 857ã95, 1915.