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IN no animal has the study of cranial development yielded richer results than in the frog. In tadpoles, from the time of hatching onwards, such points as the true nature of the trabecular, and their distinctness from the investing mass, the fact that the stapes is a segmented portion of the ear-capsule, and not the apex of the hyoid arch, and the relations of the pterygo-palatine arcade have been demonstrated v/ith certainty. Most instructive, also, is the way in which the various arches become segmented, altered in shape, direction, and relative size, and made to subserve the most various functions.
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Report of Prof. Parker's Hunterian Lectures “On the Structure and Development Of the Vertebrate Skull”*. Nature 10, 249–250 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010249a0
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