vi. Preface. 



Strangeways. Veterinary Anatomy. 



Turner (Edinburgh). In JS'atural History Review, 1862 (Orbit). 



Van der JEoeven. Handbook of Zoology, Vol. ii. 



Wagner. Comparative Anatomy of Yertebrata. 



Waterhouse. Natural History. of Mammalia. 



In making such extracts, it has been the object of 

 the Author to present to the Student, within the limits 

 of a few pages, a condensed summary of the salient 

 points to be noted in studying the Mammalian organ- 

 ism ; in other words, to point out shortly, and in one 

 handy volume, the essence of matter spread over many 

 pages in many different volumes. Although in some 

 respects the opening pages of the present volume may 

 bear upon their surface the impress of a species of 

 '' technical cram book '' ; it is hoped that the conclud- 

 ing pages, in which a series of Dissections are proposed 

 to the Student, may in some measure erase such an 

 impression, from the fact that in the pursuit of such 

 practical study as there put out the Student is so 

 brought face to face with many of the structures 

 treated of in the former part of the volume that they 

 cannot any longer remain to him mere abstract ideali- 

 ties, but must become well defined, tangible realities, 

 impressed upon his mind as things seen. 



In conclusion, the Author would express his sincere 

 thanks to Mr. C. Eobertson, .Demonstrator of Anatomy 

 and Physiology in the University Museum, Oxford, for 

 his untiring supervision of the proof-sheets passing 

 through the press, and for his many valuable hints 

 and suggestions as the work proceeded. 



3 Park Street, Oxford, 



October, 1872. 



