PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



In preparing this Edition the work luis been carefully, and it is hoped thor- 

 oughly, revised, both in regard to the descriptive text and the illustrations. Some 

 new cuts have been added, and in a few instances new ones have been substituted 

 for those in the First Edition. 



A description of the Skin has been added by Mr. Anderson ; and an additional 

 section at the end of the volume, on "Vestigial and Abnormal Structures," has 

 been supplied by the pen of Dr. Robinson. 



The Editor has been fortunate in obtaining the assistance of the original 

 authors of the various sections in all cases but two. Dr. Arthur liobinson has 

 revised the section on the Xervous System instead of Dr. H. St. John Brooks ; 

 and also those which were written by the late Mr. Arthur Hensman. 



The Editor has to thank many kind friends, and others personally unl<nown 

 to him, both in the United Kingdom and in America, for numerous and valuable 

 suggestions, and for corrections of typographical errors, which regrettably but 

 almost unavoidably had crept into the first edition. Great attention has been 

 given to all of these suggestions. Many of them have been adopted, and, if all 

 have not been, it is because they were n(jt in accord with the object and intention 

 of the work. For instance, one friendly critic thinks that in order t(» make it 

 complete as a text-book the Minute Anatomy of the Viscera must be added ; this 

 would be entirely inconsistent with our aim, M'hich is to make the book complete 

 as " a systematic description of every part and organ of the human body as it is 

 studied in the dissecting room." Minute anatomy must be studied, of course ; 

 but in the histological laboratory, not in the dissecting room, or at the demon- 

 strator's classes on Topographical Anatomy. 



It is hoped that this revised edition will receive the confidence of the 

 Teachers, and find favour with the Students whose labours the book is intended to 

 facilitate. 



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