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At Médiouna, on the twenty-fourth of March, the adjutant, Captain Pollex, awarded Private Perenna four days' cells on a charge of having broken out of camp past two sentries after evening roll call, contrary to orders, and being absent without leave until noon on the following day. Perenna, the report went on to say, brought back the body of his sergeant, killed in ambush.
This digit is called the 'pollex, or thumb; and, like the others, it bears a flat nail upon the back of its terminal joint.
The Zeuglodons from Eocene down to Pliocene, the Dolphins in the Pliocene, and the Ziphoids Catodontidae, and Balaenidae in the Pliocene, are all fully developed forms, with no intermediate species. Eohippus Lower Eocene of America; fore-feet have four toes and a rudimentary thumb or pollex. 2. Anchitherium Eocene and Lower Miocene; three toes, but 2 and 4 are diminutive. 4.
Still another may be pointed out: in the innermost toe or pollex, being turned outwards, as if intended for perching, which the frigate-bird actually does when it visits the shore, often making its nest upon trees, and roosting among the branches.
Q. Why are the fingers full of joints? A. To be more fit and apt to receive and keep what is put in them. Q. Why hath every finger three joints, and the thumb but two? A. The thumb hath three, but the third is joined to the arm, therefore is stronger than the other fingers; and is called pollex or polico, that is, to excel in strength.
This digit is called the 'pollex, or thumb; and, like the others, it bears a flat nail upon the back of its terminal joint.
The radius and ulna were separate, and the latter was entire through the whole length. The tibia and fibula were distinct. In the forefoot all the digits except the pollex, or first, were well developed. The third digit is the largest, and its close resemblance to that of the horse is clearly marked.
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