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them in reference to a final purpose ; and to indicate the direction 

 and degrees in which organisation, in subserving such Will, rises 

 from the general to the particular. 



Anatomy, or the ' Science of the Structure of Organised 

 Bodies,' is primarily divided into ' Phytotomy,' or that of plants, 

 and ' Zootomy,' or that of animals. When particular pro^-inces, 

 classes, or species of animals have monopohsed the time and skill 

 of anatomists, such special knovrledges have received particular 

 denominations : such as ' Malacotomy,' or anatomy of mollusca ; 

 ' Entomotomy,' or anatomy of insects ; ' Ichthyotomy,' or anatomy 

 of fishes ; ' Ornithotomy,' or anatomy of birds, &c. 



An animal may be dissected in order to a knowledge of its 

 structure, absolutely, without reference to or comparison mth any 

 other, its species being regarded as standing alone in creation. 

 The knowledge so gained, from the very limitation of the field of 

 enquiry, may be most accurate and minute, most valuable in its 

 application to the repair of accident, the remedy of injury and 

 decay, and the cure of disease. Such, e.g., is ' Anthropotomy,' 

 or the anatomy of man, and ' Hippotomy,' or that of the horse. 

 Besides the numerous and excellent works on these special sub- 

 jects, I may cite the ' Traite Anatomique de la Chenille du Saule,' 

 4to., 1762, by Ltonnet ; the ' Anatome Testudinis Europa^te,' 

 foL, 1819, by Bojaxus; the ' Anatomie Descriptive du Melolon- 

 tha vul ff uris, '' 4to., 1828, and the 'Anatomic Descriptive du Chat,' 

 4to., 2 vols., by Sthaus-Dueckheim ; also, in application of the 

 science to art, ' The Camel, its Anatomy, Proportions, &c.,' fob, 

 1865, by Elijah Waltox ; as imsurpassed examples of this 

 monographical kind of anatomical science. As applied to Man it 

 is commonly called ' Human Anatomy,' and is, in strictness of 

 speech, one of the manifold ways of human work. 



But the anatomist may apply himself to a particular organ 

 instead of a particular species, either exhaustively in one animal, 

 or by tracing such organ or system throughout the animal king- 

 dom. The ' Neurotomies' and ' Xeiu-ographies' to which Joseph 

 Swan, e.g., has devoted a laborious life, the ' Osteograiihie ' of 



