Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 302
arate and movable on eachof the four limbs, and these an-imals are therefore called quad-rumanous or four-handed (fig.390). Man, having the mova-ble thumb on each of the twoupper limbo only, is bimanousor two-handed; and this pecu-liarity gives a name to the class in which naturalists haveplaced… … .—The Gorilla. •^D t\ n 1 \ ODD D- Fig. 391.—Hand and Foeearm. Fig. 392—Diagram. with the hand, and in such a manner as to give it play andstrength. Fig. 391 illustrates the bony framework of thehand and arm and their connections with each other. The
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