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0261 Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2
Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2 / Page 261 (Color Image)

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The other articulating surface, for the astragalus, mentioned by Rütimeyer on the inner edge of the processus anterior, which latter, according to Major, is strikingly small and isolated in the ass and mule, is here large and connected with the facet lying above it. On the other hand, in the horse of Solutré it is isolated, and in that of Hostomitz extremely narrow but connected.

The measurements, which were made conformably to those of Major, confirm what is said above, and according to them a certain primitive relation must be ascribed to the horse of Anau.

*Astragalus.*—For the proportions of the astragalus the reader is referred to the measurements given on page 395. I repeat here only because as regards