Dr Ciaigic on the History of Comparative Anatomy. 355 



twenty-two feet below the surface, but bones appear to have 

 been found at various depths, as may be observed in the notice 

 of the Reverend Layres Gayley *, vol. xviii. p. 137 of this 

 Journal f. The discovery of banes of the horse is very extraor- 

 dinary., as this animal had been supposed not to be a native of 

 America, and the committee believe that they are of equal anti- 

 quity with the other bones ; the great size of the teeth implies 

 very large individuals, if not a large species, in analogy zoith 

 similar facts on the eastern continents. 



Silliman^s Journal, voL xx. p. 370. 



Observations on the History and Progress of Comparative 

 Anatomy. By David Craigie, M. D., &c. (Continued 

 from page 56.) 



Section IV. — Italian Zootomical School. — Cvltimhus, FaUopius, 

 Aranzi, Varoli, Bittner and Cotter. 



The cruelty of fortune, I have already shewn, deprived Eus- 

 tachio of the place to which his researches entitled him among 

 the anatomists of the IGth century. Unpropitious, however, as 

 this circumstance was to him, it was in several respects fortu- 

 nate for two anatomists nearly contemporaneous, and whose ser- 

 vices, thoufh highly meritorious, are certainly considerably en- 

 hanced by the accidental obscurity in which those of Eustachio 

 were involved. I allude to Columbus and Fallopius :— though 

 not the first anatomists of the Italian school, yet certainly the 

 first in whose time that school can be said to be firmly esta- 

 blished. 



The period of the birth of Matthew Realdus Columbus is 

 unknown ; but he was a native of Cremona, where he pursued 

 the occupation of a druggist, and he was the pupil and friend, 

 and eventually the successor, of Vesalius, when that anatomist 



• Then anonymous, but since acknowledged by the reverend gentleman 

 who visited the spot. 



t This collection is at present shewn at the corner of Broadway and Pearl 

 Street, New York ; hut it is understood that it will ere long be transferred to 

 London or Paris- 



