rmly, in the
existence of one single type of structure.
A Cuverian by training, his lack of morphological sense threw him into
the ranks of the transcendentalists, to whom perhaps he belonged by
nature.
[141] For a full account, see Kohlbrugge, _Zool. Annalen_,
xxxviii., 1911.
[142] _Rede ueber das Verhaeltnis der organischen Kraefte_,
Stuttgart u. Tuebingen, 1793 (1814). See Radl, _loc.
cit._, i., p. 261; ii., p. 57.
[143] _Supplem. ad historiam embryonis_, Tuebingen, 1797.
[144] _Lehrbuch der Naturphilosophie_, Eng. trans., p.
491, 1847.
[145] _Ueber Entwickelungsgeschichte der Thiere_, i., p.
xvii., 1828.
[146] _Zoologie_, Landshut, i., 1808.
[147] _Anatomie u. Bildungsgeschichte des Gehirns im Foetus
des Menschen_, Nuernberg, 1816.
[148] _Beytraege zur vergleichende Anatomie_, Leipzig, i.,
1808-9, ii., 1811-2.
[149] Cetacea were generally considered at this time to be
mammals of low organisation.
[150] From the French trans., which appeared under the
title _Traite gen. d'Anat. comparee_, i., p. 449, 1828.
[151] _Cf._ Geoffroy (_supra_, p. 70).
[152] _Beytraege_, ii., 2, 1812. Also in his _System d.
vergl. Anat._, i., 1821.
[153] In J. F. Meckel's _Beytraege_, ii.
[154] _Zur Morphologie_, i., 2, p. 250, 1820; and ii., 2,
pp. 122-4, 1824.
[155] See translation, giving the gist of this paper, in
Huxley's _Lectures on the Elements of Comparative
Anatomy_, pp. 282-6, London, 1864.
[156] Reil's _Archiv. f. Physiol._, vii., 1807.
[157] _Lecons d'anatomie comparee_, 3rd ed., Brussels
reprint, i., p. 414, 1836.
[158] In his Programm, _U. d. Bedeut. d. Schaedelknochen_,
1807.
[159] _Traite elementaire d'anatomie comparee_ (French
trans.), vol. iii., Paris, 1835. First developed in his
volume _Von den Ur-Theilen des Knochen und
Schalen-Gerustes_, Leipzig, 1828.
[160] Dutrochet in 1821 had tried to prove that the bones
of the members belong to the type of the vertebra--the
dicone.
[161] _Isis_, pp. 552-9, 1820 (2).
[162] _Mem. Mus. d'Hist. nat._, ix., 1822.
[163] Cuvier and Valenciennes, _Hist. nat. Poissons_, i.,
p. 311, f.n.
CHAPTER VIII
TRANSCENDENTAL ANATOMY IN ENGLAND--RICHARD OWEN
Richard Owen is the epigonos of transcendental morphology; in him its
guiding ideas find clear
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