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          COMPARATIYE VIEW
                OF THE
    HUMAN AND ANIMAL FRAME.
                                 PLATE I.
             MAN, THE GORILLA, AND THE BEAR.
                     1. MAN. Order, Bimana.          Genus, ilomo.
      Vertebral formula-7 cervical vertebra~, 12 dorsal, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral,
3 coccygeal.
        2. GORILlA.  Order, Quadrumana.     Genus, Troglodytes.  Species,
Gorilla.
          Vertebral formula-7 cervical vertebras, 13 dorsal, 4 lumbar, 5
sacral.
                   f Order, Carnivora.
        3. BEAR.   ~ Sub-order, Plantigrada.         Genus, Ursus. Species,
Aretos.
       Vertebral formula-7 cervical vertebrae, 15 dorsal, 6 lumbar, 5 sacral,
8 caudal.
MAN, the Gorilla, and Bear are figured in the first plate as examples of
the highest forms of
the vertebrate skeleton and mammalian class, and therefore best suited to
serve as standards of
comparison for all the other forms of animal structure, as shown in the nine
following plates.
All the human skeletons are presented to the student as viewed from the same
side as those of
the animals in each plate; and the attitudes are made to approximate each
other as nearly
as possible, without deviating from natural action.  This arrangement will
facilitate the corn-
parison of the general plan with the position of the bones in each animal,
and at the same
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