lv . PREFACE. 
The book by Wilder and Gage professedly uses the cat as. 
a means of illustrating technical methods and a special system 
of nomenclature. While of much value in many ways, it does 
not undertake to give a complete account of the anatomy of 
the animal. 
The fourth work is a brief laboratory guide. 
The elaborate treatise by Jayne, now in course of publica- 
tion, is a monumental work, which will be invaluable for refer- 
ence, but is too voluminous to place in the hands of students. 
At present only the volume on the bones has been published. 
As appears from the above brief characterization, none of 
these books gives a complete description of the anatomy of the 
cat in moderate volume and without extraneous matter. This 
is what the present work aims to do. 
In the year 1891-92, Professor Reighard prepared a partial 
account of the anatomy of the cat, which has since been in use, 
in typewritten form, in University of Michigan classes. It has 
been used also at the Universities of Illinois, Nebraska, and 
West Virginia, and in Dartmouth College, and has proven so 
useful for college work in Mammalian Anatomy that it was 
decided to complete it and prepare it for publication. This 
has been done by Dr. Jennings. 
The figures, which are throughout original, are direct re- 
productions of ink drawings, made under the direction of Dr. 
Jennings by Mrs. Jennings. 
The book is limited to a description of the normal anatomy 
of the cat. The direct linear action of each muscle taken alone 
has been given in the description of muscles; other matters 
belonging to the realm of physiology, as well as all histological 
matter, have been excluded. It was felt that the monumental 
work of Jayne on the anatomy of the cat, now in course of 
publication, forms the best repository for a description of varia- 
tions and abnormalities, so that these have been mentioned in 
the present volume only when they are so frequent as to be of 
much practical importance. 
Except where the contrary is stated, the descriptions are 
based throughout on our own dissections and observations and 
are in no sense a compilation. For this reason we have not 
