Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, 1872, Vol. 6
Each of the septa (fig. 1) as it approacees the surface splits into two lamina which extend in opposite directions beneath the skin and meet and unite with the adjacent lamina of other septa Thus the lamina resulting from the splitting of the neural septum are spread out, right and left, upon the dorsal muscles, and meeting the ascending -lamina from the lateral septa, form sheaths enclosing the dorsal muscles. The same is the case with the lamina of the ventral septum; and the four muscles, the two dorsal' and the two ventral' of the two sides, are enclosed in sheaths, more or less distinct, formed by the lamina of the neural, ventral and lateral septa.
Finally (fig. The four longitudinal caudal muscles - the two dorsal and the two ventral muscles are divided trans versely by septa, extending with more or less obliquity back wards or for wards from the intervals between the several vertebra to the enclosing sheaths just described and the skin. So that each of the longitudinal muscles is transversely seg mented into pieces corresponding with the several vertebra. These transverse septa are tough and form as it were part of the muscle itself, being connecting media between the ends of the muscular fibres of the segments. They are not disposed in true vertical planes, but form slight curves with the convexity back wards above and below the lateral septum'.
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