IV PREFACE. 



Miiller's fluid, or of alcohol into the vessels or cavities, (h) References to 

 the writers who have adopted the new terms of designation and description 

 (p. 534). (i) A supplementary index, (j) A list of additional references to 

 publications. 



The following is a nearly complete list of the minor changes and typo- 

 graphical corrections made in the present edition : 



P. 75, lines 9-11 read : Messrs. Scliuyler & Co., and White & Burdick, of Ithaca, for 

 $6.25. It contains the following instruments : Three assorted scalpels, coarse and fine 

 forceps, coarse and fine curved scissors, arthrotome, tracer and blow-pipe. 



P. 159, 410, 4th line. For caudal portion, read cephalic part. 



P. 164, 429, llth line. Read : diapophysis of the corresponding thoracic vertebra. 



P. 184, 12th and 13th lines. Read : It passes along the carotid canal and unites with a 

 larger vessel extending along the mesal side of the bulla. 



P. 202. For 6 read : Have plenty of light upon the part under dissection so that 

 details of structure may be seen. 



P. 238, 649. Under General Description, for dorstmeson, read ventrimeson. 



P. 264, 686. Under Origin, 10th and llth lines, for radial artery and nerve, read 

 brachial artery and median nerve. 



P. 264, 687. Under Origin, 7th line, for radial artery and nerve, read A. brachialis 

 and If. medius. 



P. 277, 713, 3d line. For thorax, read abdomen. 



P. 365, 991, last line. For dorsad of the aorta, read dorsad or ventrad of the carotid. 



P. 386, 1026, 4th line. For 1st cervical, read 7th cervical. 



In each of the three following places, for root, read trunk : p. 388, last line ; p. 389, 

 first line ; p. 395, 1043, 5th line. 



P. 512, 1399, line 22, add : on the side of the face, in the ventral lip. 



P. 489, 1324, 5th line. For caudal, read ventral. 



P. 522, 1424, 9th line, and p. 525, 8th line. For macula lutea, read discus opticus. 



In respect to nomenclature the authors are assured that the innovations 

 embodied in the first edition were in the line of real and natural progress. The 

 descriptive terms apply equally to all vertebrates and the terms of designa- 

 tion are, for the most part, brief, capable of inflection, and equally intelligible 

 to anatomists of all nations. They realize, however, that the use of words 

 with obviously Latin terminations, even when the terms are more or less 

 familiar, imparts to a sentence a decidedly un-English look, and that, for 

 most readers, the technical Latin names would be more acceptable if in an 

 English dress, or with a vernacular face and aspect. 



In accordance, therefore, with considerations more fully presented in the 

 senior author's paper (64:), the desirable English appearance of the newly 

 added pages has been attained, not by reverting to English translations or 

 heteronyms of the Latin names, but by converting the latter into their 



