MESSRS CHURCHILL'S WORKS xiii 



A. Chauveau and G. Fleming 

 CHAUVEAU'S COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF THE 



DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. Translated from the Second French 

 Edition, and Edited by GEORGE FLEMING, F.R.G.S., Veterinary Surgeon, 

 Royal' Engineers ; Author of "Travels on Horseback in Mantchu Tartary," 

 " Horse-shoes and Horse-shoeing," " Animal Plagues," etc. With 450 

 Engravings on Wood .... 8vo, ^i us. 6d. 



" The want of a text-book on the Com- the book as complete as possible. He has 



parative Anatomy of the Domesticated not only produced a most valuable and, 



Animals has long been felt. The present in fact, the only anatomical text-book for 



work is the fruit of a desire to fill a void in the veterinary student, but he has given us 



medical literature which has always existed, a work to be prized by every scientific 



so far as the English language is concerned. man who wishes to become acquainted with 



The care and attention with which hippo- the anatomy of the higher vertebrata." 



tomyhas been cultivated on the Continent Medical Times and Gazette, May 10, 1873. 

 are illustrated by every page in M. Chau- "This is a valuable work, well con- 



veau's work. ... If we compare the ceived and well executed by the authors, 



description, say of the arteries of the head MM. Chauveau and Arloing, and well 



and neck of the horse, as given in Chau- translated by Mr. Fleming. Altogether 



veau's work, with the elaborate description the work reminds us very much of Quain 



given in Quain or Ellis of the same arteries and Sharpey's, where the histological part 



in man, we shall find that in minuteness of in the latter intercalated with the syste- 



detail the anthropotomist has been very matic ; and this is giving it no slight praise, 



closely rivalled by the hippotomist. . . We have compared M. Chauveau's descrip- 



In taking leave of this book we may con- tion of the bones and other organs, where 



gratulate Mr. Fleming on the completion practicable, with those of Owen, Huxley, 



of so great and useful an undertaking. He Flower, and other English writers, and find 



has translated his author into excellent that they are in general very accurate and 



scientific English, and his contributions good. . . . The illustrations are very 



(which in the text are placed between numerous, and Mr. Fleming has introduced 



brackets) are proof of the large amount of a large number that are not contained in 



study and research he has given to make the original work. " Lancet, May 31, 1873. 



J. Reay Greene 



TABLES OF ZOOLOGY: indicating the Tribes, Sub-Orders, 

 Orders, and Higher Groups of the Animal Kingdom, for Students, 

 Lecturers, and others. By J. REAY GREENE, M.D., Professor of Natural 

 History in the Queen's University in Ireland. Three large sheets, 73. 6d. 

 the set; or, mounted on canvas, with roller and varnished . . i8s. 

 %* These Tables have been carefully prepared in accordance with the present state of 



science, and with a view to remove the difficulties which arise from the various opinions 



held by different zoologists. 



T. H. Httxley 



A MANUAL OF THE ANATOMY OF VERTEBRATED 



ANIMALS. By Prof. HUXLEY, LL.D., F.R.S. With numerous Engrav- 

 ings [Fcap. 8vo, I2S, 



By the same Author 



INTRODUCTION to the CLASSIFICATION of ANIMALS. 

 With Engravings '. 8vo, 6s. 



