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THERE is little to be said in answer to Prof. Wood Jones's remarks on this subject1; but I can assure him I overlooked neither of the facts he thinks I did. I gave him the credit for the interesting discovery, previously only an inference from what was known of the skeleton of the foot, that the sesamoid bone in question has a special muscular arrangement whereby it can be moved.
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NATURE, 143, 246 (1939).
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POCOCK, R. The Prehensile Paw of the Giant Panda. Nature 143, 381 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143381a0
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