REVIEW. 
Lectures on the Elements of Comparative Anatomy. By 
Tuomas Henry Huxizny. London: Churchill & Sons. 
Tuis work consists substantially of the lectures delivered 
by Professor Huxley in the spring of 1863, at the Royal 
College of Surgeons of England, in discharge of his duties as 
Hurterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology 
to the College. Although this work may be regarded as 
fragmentary, consisting, as it does in the first place, of six 
lectures on the Classification of Animals, and eight lectures 
on the Vertebrate Skull, the author hopes eventually to 
bring out subsequently other courses of lectures, and thus to 
produce a systematic work on Comparative Anatomy. Those 
who have in any manner regarded the publications of Pro- 
fessor Huxley, will be glad of the prospect of having pre- 
sented to them a systematic view of the opinions held by one 
who has distinguished himself by his contributions to almost 
every department of zoological and physiological inquiry. 
Professor Huxley says, with regard to this work, that in 
intention therefore the present work is the first of a series, 
to be followed in due order by a second volume on “ Man 
and the other Primates,’ and a third on the remaining 
Mammalia, and so on. As far as the inquiries with the 
microscope are concerned, we must content ourselves with 
drawing attention to those parts of the present volume which 
are devoted to the classification of animals. We cannot pre- 
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