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thought it necessary to collect the scattered references to the 

 anatomy of the cat that may occur in the literature. A 

 collection of such references may be found in Wilder and 

 Gage's Anatomical Ttxhnology. In addition to the works 

 already referred to, we have of course made use of the standard 

 works on human and veterinary anatomy. Among these 

 should be mentioned as especially useful the AnatoJiiie dcs 

 Hundcs by Ellenberger and Baum. Other publications which 

 have been of service in the preparation of the work are Windle 

 and Parson's paper On the Myology of the Terresti-ial Carniv- 

 ora, in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 

 for 1897 and 1898, T. B. Stowell's papers on the nervous 

 system of the cat in the Proceedings of the American Philo- 

 sophical Society (1881, 1886, 1888) and in the Joifrnal of 

 Comparative Neurology (vol. I.), and F. Clasen's Die jMuskeln 

 7ind Ncrven des proxivialcn Abschnitts der vorderen Extremi- 

 tcit der Katze, in Nova Acta der Ksl. Leop-Carol. Deutschen 

 Akademie der Naturforscher, Bd. 64. 



Nomenclature. — The question of nomenclature has been 

 one of difficulty. What is desired is a unifor]ii set of 

 anatomical names, — a system that shall be generally used by 

 anatomists. At present the greatest diversity prevails as to 

 the names to be applied to the different structures of the body. 

 The only set of terms which at the present time seems to have 

 any chance of general acceptance is that proposed by the 

 German Anatomical Society at their meeting in Basel in 1895, 

 and generally designated by the abbreviation BNA. This 

 system has therefore been adopted, in its main features, for use 

 in the present work. It seems impossible at the present time, 

 however, to impose any one set of terms absolutely upon 

 anatomists of all nations, and we have felt it necessary to use 

 for certain familiar structures, in place of the BNA terms, 

 names that have come to have a fixed place in English 

 anatomy, and may almost be considered component parts of 

 the English language. The German anatomists have expressly 

 recognized the fact that this would be to a greater or less 

 degree necessary among anatomists of different nations, and 

 have characterized their list as for the present tentative, and 



