VI TRANSLATORS PREFACE 



nseful supplements to the more literal translations of the 

 original. In such cases an indication of the authority has 

 been omitted, since no uncertainty is likely to result from 

 the omission. 



To avoid confusion in citation and to indicate at a sflance 

 the additions to the Literature of the several chapters, the 

 references not included in the original have been put in the 

 form of Appendices and numbered with Roman numerals. It 

 has been the aim to make these additions include all the 

 important papers which have appeared since this Part was 

 first issued. 



In translating Anlage we have employed the word funda- 

 ment — a use which one of us has suggested and defended in 

 the Translators' Preface to Text -hook of the Embryology of 

 Man and Mammals, by Dr. Oscar Hertwig, etc. (Swan 

 Sonnenschein & Co : London, 1892). 



We are under deep obligation to onr colleagues Doctors 

 C. B. Davenport and Gr. H. Parker for their friendly and 

 self-sacrificing assistance, and we desire to thank both of 

 them for their aid — Dr. Davenport for having rendered us 

 valuable service in revising the whole of the manuscript ; 

 Dr. Parker for assistance in revising parts of the manuscript 

 and reading the whole of the proof. • 



It is with reluctance that we have felt compelled by the 

 pressure of other duties to relinquish to others the task of 

 completing the translation of this admirable work. We 

 trust that one of the advantages of this change will be the 

 more rapid publication of the translation of the remaining 

 parts than could possibly have been hoped for from us. 



THE TRANSLATORS. 

 Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. 



