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remarks by explaining that since the main part of his 

 anatomical knowledge was derived from the splendid 

 series of specimens and preparations in the museum 

 under his charge, so he intended to act as the mouth- 

 piece of the specimens themselves. After this intro- 

 ductory lecture followed the regular course for the 

 year, which was devoted to the Osteology of the 

 Mammalia, and it is perhaps this series which has 

 rendered the name of Flower most familiar to the 

 ordinary students of scientific zoology and comparative 

 anatomy, since it was published during the same year as 

 a volume in Macmillan's Manuals for Students, under 

 the title of An Introduction to the Osteology of the 

 Mammalia : being the Substance of a Course of Lectures 

 delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 

 Such was the success of this admirable little volume 

 which has ever since formed the recognised text-book 

 on the subject of which it treats, that a second edition 

 was called for in 1876, and a third in 1885. In expand- 

 ing and revising the latter in which, by the way, the 

 second half of the original title was dropped the 

 author, owing to the pressure of official duties, called 

 in the assistance of Dr. J. G. Garson, of Cambridge, a 

 well-known zoologist and anatomist. 



This book, to be properly appreciated, should be 

 studied in connection with the series of homologous 

 bones of different species of mammals arranged by 

 Flower himself in the museum of the College of 

 Surgeons, to which reference has been made in an 

 earlier part of this chapter, and from which most of the 

 illustrations were drawn. The figures of the dog's 

 skull have been reproduced in a large number of 



