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cal Anatomy, retain the position which they owe to the laborious and 

 successful devotion of the Author to this branch of science. Dr. 

 Parsons's "Anatomical Preparations," published some years ago, con- 

 tains many details upon this department of anatomical labour which 

 are very useful to those who have not the works of Pole, of May- 

 grier, or of Lauth. Dr. Godman published a small volume of "Ana- 

 tomical Investigations," containing some original remarks, and ac- 

 companied with illustrations. 



Some laborious translations have been executed in this country. 

 The earliest was Dr. Hayward's translation of Bichat's General Ana- 

 tomy, a work of genius, always valuable, even if superseded in many 

 respects by the labours of modern histologists ; Dr. Doane translated 

 Meckel from the French, in three heavy volumes, full of exact detail, 

 and particularly convenient from its containing a part devoted 

 to General Anatomy, and an account of the principal anomalies and 

 morbid changes to which the organs are liable. The manual of Bayle 

 was translated by Dr. Gross, and that of Maygrier by Dr. Bedford. 



A large number of works on Anatomy have been reprinted. The 

 slender outlines of Cheselden were the first volume on this subject 

 presented to the American student. The fascinating volume of 

 John and Charles Bell was edited, with notes, by Dr. Godman, and 

 has been repeatedly republished. The Elementary Treatise of Pax- 

 ton, the translation of Clocpiet, by Dr. Knox, and that of the origi- 

 nal, and, in many points, excellent Anatomy of Cruveilhier, by Dr. 

 Madden, have also been reprinted. Wilson's Manual has been the 

 " champion of the light weights" in this department for a number of 

 years. A close-packed and somewhat adust abstract from the Ger- 

 man of Von Behr is its last rival. Few works on special anatomical 

 subjects have been called for; among these are Spurzheim and Solly 

 on the Brain, one the work of a philosopher, the other of a dissector ; 

 and a curious and somewhat fanciful little treatise on the Eye, by 

 Dr. Wallace, of New York, with tail-pieces, like those in Bewick's 

 British Birds. Many dissecting manuals have been reprinted; among 

 them, Bell's Dissections; the London and Dublin Dissectors; Wil- 

 son's Practical Anatomy, and Tuson's little book, with figures want- 

 ing in suavity of outline. Besides these, many illustrated works 

 have within a few years been published in this country. First in 

 point of originality, labour, and execution must stand the Crania 

 Americana of Dr. Morton; a work which can be referred to with 

 pride, both for its scientific and artistic character. The old figures 

 of Haller, Bell, and Wistar, many of which required a skilful anato- 



