“ “Al this, while the second set of teeth, the
permanent ones, have been growing in their
sockets and approaching towards the gums, but
not, as is said to be generally the case with
other animals and with the human being in
particular, pressing upon the roots of the milk
teeth, and causing them to be absorbed, until
at length, losing all hold in the socket, they
fall out. The process of absorption commences
here in the whole milk tooth, and as much in
the crown or body of it as at its root.
“<The process of general diminution seems
now for a while retarded; it is confined to the


FIG. i8. TEETH OF ‘“‘KING OF THE WEST.”
° (Exhibited as 3 years 7 months 15 days.)


central teeth, and they gradually waste away
until they are no larger in the body than crow
quills. About the expiration of the second year,
or a little before, the milk teeth are pushed
out, or give way, and the two central perma-
nent teeth appear. I haye here given Prof.
Youatt on the growth and absorption of
the teeth generally termed calf teeth up
to the time that the animal reaches two
years old. Prof. Youatt says: ‘It will be
seen here that about the expiration of the
second year the milk teeth are pushed out
and the central permanent teeth appear” We
wish our readers to note the process of teeth
formation for the first two years of calf life.
