Home > Man&s; s Place in Nature, 1863 > FIG. 19. —The skeleton of the Hand and Foot of Man reduced from Dr. Carber’s drawings in Gray’s ‘Anatomy’. The hand is drawn to a larger scale than the foot. The line a a in the hand indicates the boundary between the carpus and the metacarpus; b b that between the latter and the proximal phalanges; c c marks the ends of the distal phalanges. The line a′ a′ in the foot indicates the boundary between the tarsus and metatarsus; b′ b′ marks that between the metatarsus and the proximal phalanges; and c′ c′ bounds the ends of the distal phalanges: ca, the