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HOLMES.

ANALYSIS OF THE SKELETON.

NOTE.--The following Table of 206 bones is exclusive of the 8 sesamoid
bones which occur in pairs at the roots of the thumb and great toe, making
214 as given by Leidy and Draper. Gray omits the bones of the ear, and
names 200 as the total number.

THE SKELETON.
_
| I. THE HEAD (_28 bones._)
| _
| | Frontal Bone (forehead).
| _ | Two Parietal Bones.
| | 1. CRANIUM..............| Two Temporal (temple) Bones.
| | (_8 bones._) | Sphenoid Bone.
| | | Ethmoid (sieve-like bone at root of nose).
| | |_Occipital Bone (back and base of skull).
| | _
| | | Two Superior Maxillary (upper jaw) Bones.
| | | Inferior Maxillary (lower jaw) Bone.
| | | Two Malar (cheek) Bones.
| | 2. FACE.................| Two Lachrymal Bones.
| | (_14 bones._) | Two Turbinated (scroll like) Bones, each
| | | side of nose.
| | | Two Nasal Bones (Bridge of nose).
| | | Vomer (the bone between the nostrils).