2 ANATOMY OF THE RABBIT 



One notebook, taking large loose leaf fillers (pages about 

 S}yi X II inches), ruled for notes and plain linen ledger for 

 sketches, will suffice for recitation and laboratory purposes. 

 The student should cultivate the habit of making hasty, though 

 essentially accurate, sketches of structural relations and of 

 writing terse, to-the-point notes, to help him visualize the 

 functional relations of structures. Long, tedious notes usually 

 benumb the brain while they are being written and are seldom 

 useful for reference because of the relatively great amount of 

 time required to read them. 



Drawings or sketches should be made with the dorsal side of 

 the figure toward the top, or the bound edge if the figure is large, 

 of the page. The name of the figure should be placed under it, 

 as is done in books and published articles; and the labeling 

 should be written in full (abbreviations may be used judiciously) 

 on one or both sides of the figure and parallel to the name. Do 

 not use numbers, letters, or other symbols which require a list of 

 explanations. This admonition applies to both lecture and 

 laboratory work. The legend, or any other indirect method 

 of labehng is objectionable in the laboratory notebook where 

 there is ample space for direct labeling, for the following reasons : 

 (i) It increases the amount of time required to label the drawing 

 accurately. (2) It increases the percentage of errors in labeling. 

 (3) It inhibits ready reference to the finished drawings. (4) It 

 takes nearly twice as long to grade drawings labeled indirectly 

 as it does those labeled directly. 



One injected rabbit (correctly speaking, a hare) will be 

 furnished each student, and all the dissection work will be done 

 on this one specimen. If the student mutilates his rabbit or 

 allows it to dessicate or mold, he will be obliged to purchase 

 another specimen with which to finish the course. In addition 

 to the expense of a new specimen a considerable amount of 

 additional work will also be incurred, for the area to be dissected 

 must be exposed before the parts are available for study. Then 

 too, the discarded material is no longer available for review for 

 practical laboratory examinations. 



