TRANSLATORS' PREFACE. 



The Translators feel that an English edition of a book, which 

 has justly taken so high a position as Professor Kblliker's 

 'Manual of Human Histology/ needs no lengthened intro- 

 duction to the members of the Sydenham Society. 



In the rendering of the work they have endeavoured to 

 follow faithfully the text of the ' Handbuch der Gewebelehre/ 

 with the occasional incorporation, however, of a few sentences 

 from the larger 'Mikroskopische Anatomie,' by the same 

 Author, where it appeared to them that the more condensed 

 style of the present work had rendered the sense less clear 

 than was desirable. They have also added, in the shape of 

 notes (distinguished by a smaller type), whatever comments 

 of their own seemed to be called for. But the short time 

 allowed by circumstances for the publication of the present 

 volume (which includes the first half of the original), having 

 prevented their making these notes so full, or so numerous, as 

 might have been desired upon several subjects, and particularly 

 on the general doctrine of the Cell, the Translators propose to 



