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preparations are classed according to the organs ; under each 

 head reference is made to the number of the preparation in the 

 collection, and to the page of the catalogue in which it is de- 

 scribed. 



There is, lastly, an alphabetical index of donors, and of other 

 .sources, from which the physiological department of the collec- 

 tion has received additions. These additional preparations are 

 marked by the same numbers as the Hunterian specimens which 

 they respectively follow, and are distinguished by an added 

 letter. 



The Council have great gratification in acknowledging the 

 unremitting labour which has been for many years bestowed on 

 this great work by Mr. Owen, one of the Conservators, and now 

 Hunterian Professor of comparative anatomy and physiology 

 to the College, to whom its publication has been exclusively 

 confided. 



Royal College of Surgeons, London, 

 8 July, 1841. 



