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and beast. Tiota, in modern Italian, denotes only the foot af a 

 beast. In very ancient Italian, in TJmbrian, for example, flotuSy 

 i.e.plautus, "flat-footed" was applied to man. 

 {To be continued.) 



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Lectures on the Elements of Comparative Anatomy. By Thomas 

 Henry Huxley, F.R.S., Professor of Natural History, Royal School 

 of Mines, and Professor of Comparative Anatomy and I'hysiology 

 to the Royal College of Surgeons of England. On the Classifica- 

 tion of Animals, and on the Vertebrate skull. London : John 

 Churchill & Sons, New Burlington Street. 1864. 



We have no intention either of analysing or criticising at length 

 this important work, which we could not be satisfied without bringing 

 under the notice of such of our readers as are interested in physiolo- 

 gical or natural history pursuits. The name of Thomas Henry 

 Huxley assures us of sound knowledge, original research, profonnd 

 thought, complete command of the literature of the subject, foreign 

 as well as British, and a clear, lively, straightforward style in the 

 communication of his ideas. No work of his can fail to be deserving 

 of attention, and he has here entered on a very wide and most inter- 

 esting field, of his labours upon which the volume before us affords 

 but a preliminary specimen. We are far from admitting the correct- 

 ness of all his arguments or from receiving all his conclusions, and it 

 would take much more time and space than we can command to dis- 

 cuss to any purpose what may be called in question. But when we 

 most differ from him we appreciate his high qualities and strongly 

 recommend to every inquirer the study of the work now before ns, as 

 well as of his other contributions to science. 



It is, perhaps, hardly with strict propriety that Professor Huxley'a 

 work, consisting of lectures delivered before an audience as learned in 

 this department as could be assembled, and specially treating the 

 most doubtful and disputed questions which the science affords, is 

 entitled, " Elements of Comparative Anatomy." The work is as far 



