8 Anatomy of Skeleton 



assumed that he has done so and is more or less familiar with it. It is in this part 

 particularly of the description that the bones for comparison and the dissections ought 

 to be used for constant reference, and it must not be forgotten that the descriptions 

 are intended for application to the specimens and not to the drawings : the majority 

 of figures in the following pages are introduced as guides to facilitate the recognition 

 of the various parts on the actual skeleton. There can be no other object in having 

 drawings of bones, and Anatomy cannot be learnt from pictures. 



