Excerpt from Transactions of the Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Fifth Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science, 1891-'92, Vol. 13: With the Reports of the Secretary How much the sense of taste has had to do with the development of the tongue. And consequent effect upon the oral structures, we can form no estimate, for these structures seem to be erected mainly for the accommodation of the dental armature. The jaws vary as the food habits cause the teeth to vary, or as the teeth may be de veloped for other purposes. As these are modified to adopt them to the food hab its, the jaws are formed to support the teeth, as, for instance, in the carnivora or the ruminants. The mouth is developed, from a mere orifice for the reception of food for its introduction into the alimentary canal, to the position of an important facial feature. In the higher forms the lips advance from mere prehensile organs to becoming conspicuous features in facial expression, for in man the mouth is the most expressive of the mobile features. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.