4 PREFACE 
structure, together with experience of the laboratory practice upon 
which first-hand knowledge of gross anatomy depends. It is with 
reference to the latter group that the plan of nomenclature has 
been rigidly selected in accordance with the newer and more 
uniform terminology now happily established in the texibooks of 
human anatomy. The student will be warned against terminology 
as an end in itself, as against other short cuts to knowledge, and 
if properly directed will place the emphasis upon praciice and 
initiative. 
B. A. BENSLEY. 
University of Toronto, 
December Ist, 1920. 
