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INTRODUCTION. 
The Study of Osteology is one, which the student 
of Comparative Anatomy is apt to neglect; and it is 
only quite recently that it has been adequately repre- 
sented in the ordinary course of Zoology and Com- 
parative Anatomy, taught in the University and 
College Classes of this country. 
It is of the greatest importance, that a definite 
and accurate knowledge should be obtained of the 
framework, supporting and modifying the tissues 
which cover it. Further, as has been pointed out by 
Professor Flower, “large numbers of animals, all of 
those not at present existing on the earth, can be 
known to us by little else than the form of their 
bones.” 
The student, who, having mastered the facts laid 
down in the following pages, desires to acquire a 
further knowledge of general osteology, cannot do 
better than carefully study the admirable work by 
Professor Flower and Dr. Gadow, and Parker and 
Bettany’s “ Morphology of the Skull.” References to 
a number of memoirs upon the cranial -osteology of 
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