PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



The proprietor of Strangeways' Anatomy having resolved on 

 issuing a new and revised edition of the work, placed the matter 

 in my hands, with a carte blanche to do what I thought most 

 advisable. This I have striven to the best of my ability to do ; 

 whether successfully or not, the dictum of future students alone 

 will decide, since for them the work is designed. 



Books on Anatomy seem naturally to divide themselves into 

 three classes — the exhaustive work for reference, the practical 

 dissecting manual, and the current text-book. In the veterinary 

 department of Anatomy, the first of these classes is represented 

 by Mr. Fleming's well-known edition of " Chauveau," the second 

 by Mr. Steel's " Outlines of Equine Anatomy," while the third is 

 represented by the works of Percivall and Strangeways. 



In the present edition of Strangeways I have separated the 

 matter into headed paragraphs and chapters ; the Comparative 

 Anatomy being inserted in sections, each at the end of its proper 

 chapter, and, to avoid error in rapid reference, printed in smaller 

 type. The Introduction is my own. Dr. Strangeways' intro- 

 ductory lecture being by some means omitted from the first 

 edition. Other portions of the work which I have added I need 

 not enumerate here, nor yet certain other portions which have 

 been expunged. 



The photo-lithographic illustrations to the first edition, not 

 being part of the copyright, were not forthcoming, but I have 



