PREFACE. 



In preparing the following short outline of the 

 Anatomy of the Mammalia, and of the Methods to be 

 pursued in investigating (a) the arrangement of parts 

 in the Mammalian Body, and (b) the special con- 

 struction of certain of these parts, e.^. the Heart, 

 Brain, Eye, and Cerebral I^^ervous System, frequent 

 reference has been made to, and almost verbatim 

 extracts taken from, the following books and papers, 



Carpenter. Principles of Comparative Physiology. 



Colhold. Cyc. Anatomy and Physiology, art. Euminantia. 



Mlis. Demonstrations of Human Anatomy. 



Flower, Osteology of the Mammalia, in Journal of Anatomy and 

 Physiology, 1867 and 1869 (Mammalian Teeth). In Philoso- 

 phical Transactions, 1867 (Marsupial Teeth), and 1865, p. 633 

 (Marsupial and Monotreme Brain). 



Oray. Human Anatomy. 



Gulliver. Proceedings of Zoological Society, March, 1870 (Striated 

 Muscular Fibre of (Esophagus). 



JETewson. Sydenham Society, 1846 (Blood Corpuscles). 



Sulke. British Medical Journal, September, 1870 (Eye). 



Huxley. Elements of Comparative Anatomy, 1864. 



Mayer. Anat. TJntersuchungen liber das Auge der Cetaceen. 



Marshall^ J. Phil. Trans., 1850, p. 133 (Azygos Veins). 



Milne Edwards. Lemons sur la Physiologie. 



Owen. Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Yertebrata, Yds. 

 ii. and iii. 



Parker. Shoulder Girdle. 



Quatn. Human Anatomy. 



Rapp. Cetaceen. 



Rolleston. Forms of Animal Life. 



Rutherford. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, Jan. 1872 

 (Preparation of the Retina). 



