322. Diagram of the same phenomenon in a ram’s horn . . . 623
323. Antlers of a Swedish elk (Lönnberg) . . . 629
324. Head and antlers of _Cervus duvauceli_ (Lydekker) . . . 630
325, 6. Diagrams of spiral phyllotaxis (P. G. Tait) . . . 644, 5
327. Further diagrams of phyllotaxis, to shew how various spiral
appearances may arise out of one and the same angular leaf-divergence
. . . 648
328. Diagrammatic outlines of various sea-urchins . . . 664
329, 30. Diagrams of the angle of branching in blood-vessels (Hess)
. . . 667, 8
331, 2. Diagrams illustrating the flexure of a beam . . . 674, 8
333. An example of the mode of arrangement of bast-fibres in a
plant-stem (Schwendener) . . . 680
334. Section of the head of a femur, to shew its trabecular structure
(Schäfer, after Robinson) . . . 681
335. Comparative diagrams of a crane-head and the head of a femur
(Culmann and H. Meyer) . . . 682
336. Diagram of stress-lines in the human foot (Sir D. MacAlister,
after H. Meyer) . . . 684
337. Trabecular structure of the _os calcis_ (_do._) . . . 685
338. Diagram of shearing-stress in a loaded pillar . . . 686
339. Diagrams of tied arch, and bowstring girder (Fidler) . . . 693
340, 1. Diagrams of a bridge: shewing proposed span, the corresponding
stress-diagram and reciprocal plan of construction (_do._) . . . 696
342. A loaded bracket and its reciprocal construction-diagram
(Culmann) . . . 697
343, 4. A cantilever bridge, with its reciprocal diagrams (Fidler)
. . . 698
345. A two-armed cantilever of the Forth Bridge (_do._) . . . 700
346. A two-armed cantilever with load distributed over two pier-heads,
as in the quadrupedal skeleton . . . 700
347–9. Stress-diagrams. or diagrams of bending moments, in the
backbones of the horse, of a Dinosaur, and of _Titanotherium_
. . . 701–4
350. The skeleton of _Stegosaurus_ . . . 707
351. Bending-moments in a beam with fixed ends, to illustrate the
mechanics of chevron-bones . . . 709
352, 3. Coordinate diagrams of a circle, and its deformation into an
ellipse . . . 729
354. Comparison, by means of Cartesian coordinates, of the
cannon-bones of various ruminant animals . . . 729
355, 6. Logarithmic coordinates, and the circle of Fig. 352 inscribed
therein . . . 729, 31
357, 8. Diagrams of oblique and radial coordinates . . . 731
359. Lanceolate, ovate and cordate leaves, compared by the help of
radial coordinates . . . 732
360. A leaf of _Begonia daedalea_ . . . 733
361. A network of logarithmic spiral coordinates . . . 735
362, 3. Feet of ox, sheep and giraffe, compared by means of Cartesian
coordinates . . . 738, 40
364, 6. “Proportional diagrams” of human physiognomy (Albert Dürer)
. . . 740, 2
365. Median and lateral toes of a tapir, compared by means of
rectangular and oblique coordinates . . . 741
367, 8. A comparison of the copepods _Oithona_ and _Sapphirina_
. . . 742
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