But though the effects of those two causes be evident in the conformation of every mountainous region, it is not always easy to analyse those effects so as to see the efficient cause.
The conformation of the skull has some slight resemblance to that of the white race of the ancient Egyptians.
We have remarked above on the similarity of the conformation of the western coasts of Galicia to those of Norway, Scotland, and Ireland.
We have before remarked on the Frith or Fiord-like character of the western coast of Galicia, a conformation which gives it by far the finest harbours of the whole Spanish coast.
These are the political separation of Spain and Portugal, so ill-adapted to the geographical conformation of the Peninsula.
Aetius said that the Egyptians practiced amputation of the clitoris, so that enlargement of this organ must have been a common vice of conformation along the Nile.
Maurice made an observation on a vice of conformation of the lower jaw which rendered lactation impossible, probably causing the death of the infant on this account.
When there is a default in the spinal column, the vice of conformation is called spina bifida.
Moreau quotes a case of an infant similar in conformation to the foregoing monster, who was born in Switzerland in 1764, and whose supernumerary parts were amputated by means of a ligature.
While so engaged he had seized every opportunity to study the conformation of this organ, and finally prepared a body formed of cotton, six inches in length, and shaped like a penis, minus a prepuce.
The bizarre head was of negro conformation and fully developed, and the colored skin was found to be due to the existence of pigment similar to that found in the black race.
The woman who gave birth to them became impregnated, it is said, immediately after seeing the famous Siamese twins, and the products of this pregnancy took the conformation of those celebrated exhibitionists.
Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire records an instance in which the conformationwas similar to that of Santos.
The anomalies of the vas deferens and seminal vesicles are of little interest and will be passed with mention of the case of Weber, who found the seminal vesicles double; a similar conformation has been seen in hermaphrodites.
Extension and flexion at the ankle are only limited by the shortness of the ligaments; there is no opposition from the conformation of the bones.
The accompanying illustrations show the conformation of the parts before operation with all the appearance of ill-developed male genitalia, and the appearance afterward with restitution of the vaginal opening.
The older observers thought this woman must have had two orifices to her womb, one of which had some connection with the stomach, as they had records of the dissection of a female in whom was found a conformation similar to this.
In some nations and families obesity is hereditary, and generations come and go without a change in the ordinary conformation of the representatives.
Lousier mentions a woman wanting a mamma who transmitted this vice of conformation to her daughter.
It is true that all babies look alike to me; but I should have known that this child was male, theconformation of the skull alone should have told me that.
It was the conformation of the head that gave rise to the mistake, a head domed and massive, white and smooth--it was a head that had always interested me.
But all these are secondary; the primary ground of classification is the physical conformation of man himself.
In its conformation it is almost identical with the rock-bass, but differs in having more teeth on the tongue and more gill-rakers.
The yellow grunt is very similar to the common grunt in the conformation of its body and fins, but has a rather curved profile instead of a depression in front of the eye.
The conformation of the volcanic peaks and ridges is very similar, but the vegetable covering is of a sap green tint, whereas that of Madeira, seen from a similar distance, appears of a bronze hue.
They vary in conformation and in number; some having but one, others as many as eighteen.
This conformation may be seen in the pupa of Noctua Gamma, Verbasci, and many other species.
From this conformation it has been sometimes said, that insects carry their bones on the outside of their body, or have an external skeleton.
A conformation nearly similar takes place in the female of Tinea Lichenella; but in this the feet are longer, and the anus is furnished with a long retractile ovipositor[726].
This conformation is for some particular purpose in the economy of the animal, since they are the most busily employed of all in arranging the threads of her web.
Capricorns you would find that the general conformation in this respect belonged to our learned author's second mode of solid articulation, resembling that of the majority of the weevils (Curculio L.
The arch of the instep, the perfect conformation of which is essential to steadiness and ease of gait, is less elevated in the former than in the latter.
This is enough concerning names; let us now pass to the conformation of the island.
This is a phenomenon which may frequently be observed in rivers, where theconformation of the banks gives rise to whirlpools.
They have taken cover in dug-outs and in trenches and in remote billets hidden in handy, sheltered spots in the conformation of the rolling landscape.
This in itself shows that the cause of life and intelligence is simply from some conformation of matter which allows the presence of Spirit.
Water is the great agent of life or conformation as it is mobile.
This conformation reminds us throughout of the brain of the anthropoid apes.
He describes correctly the eye of that creature, showing that it is covered by a thickish skin, but presents a conformation similar to that of other animals, and is furnished with a nerve from the brain.
So long has the term Caucasian been considered to denote a type of physical conformation closely akin to that of the Iapetidæ, (i.
There is a great difference in physical conformation between the inhabitants of different members of the Paumotu group.
Lastly, as to the conformation of the skull, a point where (with great deference) I differ from the author of the excellent Crania Americana.
In their physiognomy the Turks have in many instances departed from the Mongol type; and, hence, the agreement between the two cognate families is less manifest in their physical conformation than in their languages.
With the other the physical conformation shall have been modified by a quick succession of external influences, whilst the language shall have stayed as it was.
The physical conformation of the Fiji natives is Negrito as well as Polynesian.
The complementary question as to the unity or non-unity of the physical conformation of the aboriginal American still stands over.
The test of physical conformation is considered to exclude the Eskimo; and the test of physical conformation is considered to exclude, if not the Mexican, at least the Peruvian.
They may be considered as a variety of that race of blacker colour than others, and of a conformation approaching more nearly to that of proper Negroes.
As the flood continued to rise, the proportion of land and water, and the conformation of the irregular and temporary shores which separated them, were changed continually, from day to day.
In order distinctly to understand these movements, it is necessary that the reader should first have a clear conception of the geographical conformation of the coasts and seas along which the path of the expedition lay.
There were, moreover, certain points in its geographical position, and in the physicalconformation of the country, that gave it a peculiar importance in respect to the approaching conflict.
To the physical geologist the conformation of the Alps, and of mountain-regions generally, constitutes one of the most interesting problems of the present day.
Two years ago I wrote a brief note 'On the Conformation of the Alps,'[21] in which I ascribed the paramount influence to glaciers.
Special localities might be found which would seem to contradict every solution which refers the conformationof the Alps to the operation of a single cause.
We scrambled up the Grauhaupt, a point exceedingly favourable to the study of the conformation of the Alps.
The fracture theory, then, if it regards the elevation of the Alps as due to the operation of a force acting throughout the entire region, is, in my opinion, utterly incompetent to account for the conformation of the country.
A singular conformationof rock is observable upon the extremity of the wild cape, it being worn by the incessant beating of the billows into a grotesque resemblance of the human profile.
At last we come to the physical conformation which supports courage, or renders it difficult of exhibition, or puts it altogether out of the question.
Towards the bottom of the cell, on each side, is a well developed lateral area of exactly the sameconformation as the sub-avicularian loculament, and like it covered in by a convex transparent membrane.
Where there are more than two rows of cells, the marginal cells differ in conformation from the central.
The mouth of the cell is situated at the upper part in front, and is of the same conformation as in the rest of the Cheilostomatous suborder.
The more important points of distinction consist in the conformation of the opening of the cell, and in the position of the avicularium when the latter organ is present.
