PREFACE. v 
thought it necessary to collect the scattered references to the 
anatomy of the cat that may occur in the literature. A 
collection of such references may be found in Wilder and 
Gage’s Anatomical Technology. In addition to the works 
already referred to, we have of course made use of the standard 
works on human and veterinary anatomy. Among these 
should be mentioned as especially useful the Axatomie des 
Hundes by Ellenberger and Baum. Other publications which 
have been of service in the preparation of the work are Windle 
and Parson’s paper Ox the Myology of the Terrestrial Carniv- 
ora, in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 
for 1897 and 1898, T. B. Stowell’s papers on the nervous 
system of the cat in the Proceedings of the American Philo- 
sophical Society (1881, 1886, 1888) and in the Journal of 
Comparative Neurology (vol. I.), and F. Clasen’s Dze Muskeln 
und Nerven des proximalen Abschnitts der vorderen Extremt- 
tat der Katze, in Nova Acta der Ksl. Leop-Carol. Deutschen 
Akademie der Naturforscher, Bd. 64. 
Nomenclature.—The question of nomenclature has been 
ene of difficulty. What is desired is a uniform set of 
anatomical names,—a system that shall be generally used by 
anatomists. At present the greatest diversity prevails as to 
the names to be applied to the different structures of the body. 
The only set of terms which at the present time seems to have 
any chance of general acceptance is that proposed by the 
German Anatomical Society at their meeting in Basel in 1895, 
and generally designated by the abbreviation BNA. This 
system has therefore been adopted, in its main features, for use 
in the present work. It seems impossible at the present time, 
however, to impose any one set of terms absolutely upon 
anatomists of all nations, and we have felt it necessary to use 
for certain familiar structures, in place of the BNA terms, 
names that have come to have a fixed place in English 
anatomy, and may almost be considered component parts of 
the English language. The German anatomists have expressly 
recognized the fact that this would be to a greater or less 
degree necessary among anatomists of different nations, and 
have characterized their list as for the present tentative, and 
