PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. 
The present edition of the ‘Anatomy of the Rabbit”’ appears 
in the same form as previously adopted for the second, but with 
some minor revisions and modifications. The necessity of re- 
printing the text after a comparatively brief interval of use, and 
the thorough revision in passing from the first to the second editions 
are together accountable for the fact that the number of corrections 
is not greater. Realizing that the ultimate value of a manual ot 
dissection depends upon the combined experience of as great a 
variety as possible of instructors and students using it, the author 
has endeavoured ait all stages of revision to incorporate such new 
ideas as have been received, and is appreciative of the interest 
taken in the matter by an increasing number of individuals. 
The chief features of the text may be summarized as follows: 
The practical convenience of the rabbit is recognized as material 
for elementary anatomical study in the same way as in other 
fields of biological study and investigation. Though the principal 
design of the book is to direct the student in an orderly study of the 
tructure of a mammal, points of physiological interest have been 
included so far as seemed advisable within the limits of a small 
manual of anatomichl oyilook. The setting of gross, anatomy, In 
respect of microscopic anatomy, embryology; and. the foundations of 
evolutionary development in general, has been carefully con- 
sidered. While the poirits to which reference is made in the dis- 
section are given a restricted description, there is no suggestion to 
the student of inadequate and superficial treatment, such as is 
common and perhaps necessary in manuals where the study of a 
number of types is presupposed as part of the course of instruction. 
The book has been planned in part to serve the purpose of 
those zoological students who seek to obtain knowledge of a 
grade of organization sufficiently near that of the human body 
as a foundation for comparative studies, but more especially for 
premedical and medical students who by making a preliminary 
practical study of a convenient and easily obtained mammal 
may obtain thereby a knowledge of the foundations of human 
