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THE new Hunterian Professor, Mr. W. Kitchen Parker, has just completed his course of eighteen lectures at the College of Surgeons, embodying in them the results of his researches on that most difficult problem, the development of the vertebrate skull. The plan pursued by Mr. Parker has been to describe first in their adult state, and afterwards in the various stages of their development, lhe skulls of certain prominent vertebrates which should serve as types for the other members of the group, and to deduce from the facts thus established the principles on which the cranium is constructed in the whole sub-kingdom. The types selected were the shark, skate, salmon, axolotl, frog, snake, fowl, and pig.
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Report of Prof. Parker's Hunterian Lectures “On the Structure and Development of the Vertebrate Skull”. Nature 9, 424–426 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009424b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/009424b0