iv PREFACE. 



The book by Wilder and Gage professedly uses the cat as 

 a means of illustrating technical methods and a special system 

 of nomenclature. While of much value in many ways, it does 

 not undertake to give a complete account of the anatomy of 

 the animal. 



The fourth work is a brief laboratory guide. 



The elaborate treatise by Jayne, now in course of publica- 

 tion, is a monumental work, which will be invaluable for refer- 

 ence, but is too voluminous to place in the hands of students. 

 At present only the volume on the bones has been published. 



As appears from the above brief characterization, none of 

 these books gives a complete description of the anatomy of the 

 cat in moderate volume and without extraneous matter. This 

 is what the present work aims to do. 



In the year 1891-92, Professor Reighard prepared a partial 

 account of the anatomy of the cat, which has since been in use, 

 in typewritten form, in University of Michigan classes. It has 

 been used also at the Universities of Illinois, Nebraska, and 

 West Virginia, and in Dartmouth College, and has proven so- 

 useful for college work in Mammalian Anatomy that it was 

 decided to complete it and prepare it for publication. This, 

 has been done by Dr. Jennings. 



The figures, which are throughout original, are direct re- 

 productions of ink drawings, made under the direction of Dr. 

 Jennings by Mrs. Jennings. 



The book is limited to a description of the normal anatomy 

 of the cat. The direct linear action of each muscle taken alone 

 has been given in the description of muscles ; other matters 

 belonging to the realm of physiology, as well as all histological 

 matter, have been excluded. It was felt that the monumental 

 work of Jayne on the anatomy of the cat, now in course of 

 publication, forms the best repository for a description of varia- 

 tions and abnormalities, so that these have been mentioned in 

 the present volume only when they are so frequent as to be of 

 much practical importance. 



Except where the contrary is stated, the descriptions are 

 based throughout on our own dissections and observations and 

 are in no sense a compilation. For this reason we have not 



