APPENDIX. 
PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS, 
Tue following appendix on the dissection and study of the cat 
is not intended as a general treatise on methods of preservation and 
dissection, but attempts only to give the application of well-known 
methods to the dissection and study of the particular animal with 
which the book deals. General methods which are referred to bu 
not described must be looked up, if unfamiliar, in the manuals of 
general methods. 
Aids to Dissection and Study of the Cat.—A copy of Jayne’s 
‘‘Mammalian Anatomy ’”’ should be in the laboratory for reference. 
Only the volume on the Bones of the Cat has been issued thus far. 
Wilder and Gage’s ‘‘ Anatomical Technology ’’ will be found 
very useful for methods of work. 
The plates of Strauss-Durckheim’s ‘‘ Anatomie du Chat’’ are 
exceedingly valuable for the bones and muscles, and should be in 
the laboratory if possible. Outline reproductions of these plates 
have been published by H. S. Williams (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 
New York, 1875). The use of both the original plates and the re- 
productions is made difficult by the antiquated nomenclature used 
for the structures figured. 
Method of Use of the Present Directions,—Except in the case of 
the Bones, the order of study of the structures is usually not the 
same as the order in which they are described. This is of course 
due to practical difficulties in dissection. The present directions 
give the order of study, or at least the order of dissection; of course 
after dissection the structures can be reviewed in the logical order 
given in the descriptions. But in the first study and dissection, the 
student is to use these directions for the order of work, while using 
the body of the book for the descriptions. It will be necessary 
therefore to keep the book opened in two places,—one in the 
appendix, for the directions; one in the body of the book, for 
descriptions. In studying the muscles, for example, the student will 
follow the order of dissection given in the appendix, but as every 
muscle is dissected he will find, confirm, and study the description of 
that muscle given in the body of the book. Other organs are 
studied in a similar manner. 
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