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and systematic researches in minute anatomy to any 

 great extent, and hence we are mainly indebted for 

 our knowledge of it to our brethren of the old world. 

 To solicit the attention of the student to the sub- 

 ject of general anatomy, and to furnish him with an 

 attractive text-book in a less elaborate form than the 

 excellent works of Todd and Bowman, the Cyclo- 

 paedia of Anatomy, &c., &c., is the object with which 

 I have prepared the present volume for the press. 

 I trust it may serve the purpose of an introduction to 

 the more extensive works on the subject, and also to 

 the numerous and faithful laborers in this department 

 of science in Europe, and especially in Germany, 

 where it is most successfully cultivated. 



YORK, October, 1860. 



