NOTICE. VII 



explain why this translation of ray esteemed friend's work 

 occupies 'a considerably less space than the original. The 

 translation being addressed to Englishmen, lovers of matters- 

 of-fact, in science as well as in other things, it became a duty 

 I owed the public and publisher to avoid all repetitions, 

 all French idioms, all lengthened treatment of physiological 

 and metaphysical hypotheses ; but in doing so I have scru- 

 pulously avoided omitting any fact or idea or opinion of the 

 author. The curtailment has been in the language alone. 

 The anatomical details of the work I have endeavoured to 

 give in as brief, concise, and simple a manner as befits such 

 matters. Anatomy is a science of facts and of demonstrations ; 

 even when the objects are present, as in lectures (and this was 

 the original form of M. Edwards's work), it is a mistake to over- 

 load their description with terms, whether technical or popular: 

 my vast experience as a teacher of Anatomy early taught me 

 this. In French the error is less obvious than in English, a 

 language which does not readily accommodate itself to those 

 combinations of unclassical terms which all science unfor- 

 tunately requires ; which sound harshly to the ears of the 

 classical scholar, and have greatly retarded, no doubt, the 

 accomplishment of that object which is the aim of this work, 

 namely, the introduction in England of Zoology as a branch 

 of primary education. 



E. K. 



