PREFACE 



This elementary work on dissection of the rabbit was pre- 

 pared to meet the needs of laboratory courses in mammahan 

 anatomy designed for students who wish to obtain a background 

 for advanced human physiology, for those majoring in physical 

 education and for premedical and other students who wish to 

 learn the technique of mammalian dissection and the basic 

 principles of descriptive and functional anatomy. An effort 

 has been made to keep the subject matter down to such a point 

 that the entire outline may be covered in one hundred, or less, 

 laboratory hours. 



In teaching mammalian anatomy the writer finds that the 

 most nearly ideal method is that employed by Professor J. 

 Percy Moore, in the University of Pennsylvania who discourages 

 the student from committing the descriptions to memory, 

 with the idea of reciting them by rote, and stimulates him to 

 learn anatomy from the functional, rather than the purely 

 descriptive point of view. The student is required to be able 

 to demonstrate on his specimen and explain the relations and 

 functions of structures at any time the laboratory instructor 

 may make such requests and at written examinations. 



The method of using the consecutive numbers of muscles, 

 arteries, and nerves in the descriptions and cross references 

 is an elaboration of a similar system employed in mimeographed 

 outlines for dissecting the cat, at the University of Pennsylvania. 



The books which have been consulted to any considerable 

 extent during the preparation of this work are: Addison, 

 W. H. F. 1927, Piersol's Normal Histology, 13 ed. J. B. Lippin- 

 cott Co. ; Bensley, B. A. 1926, Practical Anatomy of the Rabbit, 

 4 ed. P. Blakiston's Son & Co. Inc.; Hyman, L. H. 1922, A 

 Laboratory Manual for Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, 



