PREFACE 



The plan and aim of the present instalment of an account 

 of the topographical anatomy of the horse are the same as 

 those according to which the volumes on the limbs and the 

 thorax and abdomen were prepared. It is hoped that the 

 three volumes together will furnish, in sufficient detail but 

 without over-elaboration, a description of the form and 

 disposition of the parts of the horse's body that will help the 

 student, and, perchance, the practitioner. 



My grateful thanks are again tendered to Mr. James T. 

 Murray for the time and care devoted to the preparation 

 of the illustrations ; to my colleague, Mr. T. Grahame, 

 M.R.C.V.S., for assistance in reading the proof-sheets ; and 

 to the publishers. 



0. C. B. 



September, 1923. 



