388 ANATOMICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



mitted for publication. Abstracts of some of the others have 

 also appeared, from time to time, in the reports of various 

 Societies. 



" The observations on the healthy Structure and Economy 

 of Bone are, with the exception of those on the contents of 

 the corpuscles, an abstract of my lectures on this subject in 

 the College of Surgeons in winter 1842-3. I have considered 

 this explanation necessary, in consequence of the resemblance 

 between certain parts of my description and those in the 

 admirable chapter on the same subject in Todd and Bowman's 

 Physiological Anatomy, drawn up from the observations of 

 Mr. Tomes. 



" My brother, Harry D. S. Goodsir, has added some of his 

 own zoological, anatomical, and pathological observations, as 

 confirmatory of the doctrines of Centres of Nutrition and of 

 Secretion. (Nos. XXVI. XXXII. XXXIII.) 



" To such as may be inclined to object to the theoretical 

 views which run through and connect these anatomical details, 

 I would only say, that we shall be quite satisfied, if, on find- 

 ing the latter correct, they will allow us to retain the former 

 for future use ; feeling assured, that * there is a certain analogy, 

 constancy, and uniformity, in the phenomena or appearances 

 of nature, which are a foundation for general rules ;' and that 

 ' these are a grammar for the understanding of nature, or that 

 series of effects in thevisible world, whereby we are enabled 

 to foresee what will come to pass in the natural course of 

 things.' " 



