SECTION VI. EAELY STUDIES IN 

 COMPAKATIVE ANATOMY. 



A CONNECTED history of Comparative Anatomy, which 

 is impossible in a volume like this, would be bound 

 to dwell upon the labours of the anatomists and 

 physiologists of the period between 1545 and 1650. 

 Some of the most eminent belong to the school of 

 Padua, which was founded by Vesalius and continued 

 by Falloppio and Fabricius ; Coiter, a Dutchman, and 

 our own William Harvey got their training in Padua. 

 The pupils of Falloppio and Fabricius, besides anatomists, 

 who in other cities of Italy or of France pursued 

 the same studies, compared monkeys and animals of still 

 lower grade with man ; some attended to the develop- 

 ment of mammals and birds. The naturalist Belon 

 set the example of close comparison by figuring on 

 opposite pages the skeletons of a man and a bird, and 

 lettering the corresponding bones by the same letters ; 

 this was as early as 1555. In the second half of the 

 seventeenth century the succession was kept up by 

 Malpighi in Italy, by Perrault in France, and by Tyson 

 in England. 



