Note 205 — Chapter XIX
Reading edition
The strongest evidence in favour of Huxley’s and Parker’s view of the nature of the columella is the fusion in the adult Sphenodon of the upper end of the hyoid with the columella (vide Huxley, No. 445). From an examination of a specimen in the Cambridge museum I do not feel satisfied that the fusion is not secondary, but have not been able to examine the junction of the hyoid and columella in section. For a different view to that of Huxley vide Peters, “Ueb. d. Gehörknochelchen u. ihr Verhältniss zu. Zungenbeinbogen b. Sphenodon.” Berlin Monatsberichte, 1874.