Owen

Cited as Owen. — 10 quotations

The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state.

A mineral . . . augments not by growth, but by accretion.

The back aperture of the nostrils.

A nearer approach to the human type.

All insects . . . acquire the jointed legs before the wings are fully developed.

The ruminants have the “cloven foot,” i. e., two hoofed digits on each foot.

The heat-retaining property of the pilose covering.

Purposive modification of structure in a bone.

Professor E. Forbes states that only a small minority of the medusae of our seas are stingers.