PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 



THE call for a second edition of this volume has enabled 

 me to revise the text, to substitute in several cases im- 

 proved woodcuts, and to add a brief Classification of the 

 Types, and a Glossary. C. LL. M. 



UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, BRISTOL, 

 April 1889. 



PREFACE 



IN preparing this volume I have endeavoured to meet the 

 requirements of those who intend to present themselves for 

 the London Intermediate and Preliminary Scientific, for the 

 Oxford and Cambridge Local, and for other examinations 

 of like range based upon the type system. 



Special attention has been paid to Embryology. 



The larger portion of the work has been devoted to the 

 Vertebrate types, because I have had in view, in the first 

 place, the requirements of those who intend to follow a 

 medical career, and who will, I believe, after working 

 through such a course as is developed in this volume, be 

 able to make a better start, and thereafter more rapid 

 progress, in their study of human anatomy and physiology 

 than would be otherwise possible ; and, in the second place, 

 because there are many who are led to take a deep interest 



