768 Recent Literature. [July, 
WILDER AND GaGe’s ANATOMICAL TECHNOLOGY AS APPLIED TO 
THE DOMESTIC Cat.\—The authors’ evident purpose in preparing 
this work has been to acquaint the beginner in anatomy with the 
instruments and other material necessary for use in dissecting, the 
methods of dissecting, and finally a full description of the most 
important parts of the cat, including the skeleton, the muscles of 
the shoulder and arm, the more important viscera, the vascular 
system, the nervous system in general, but especially the brain. 
It is apparently not intended to be a contribution to the general 
and comparative anatomy of the cat, as it is not exhaustive of the 
anatomy of a single cat. Hence it would not be fair to compare 
it with Mivart’s excellent work on the cat in all its relations, ana- 
system. Under the head of terminology are several pages of 
irrelevant and whimsical matter, including correspondence and 
The authors have attempted a reform in terminology, and a oe 
form is needed. Thirty-four pages are devoted to a discussion o! 
have been omitted in the present book ; the discussion 1s too ra” 
bling for a laboratory guide-book, yet the suggestions are in ee 
cases excellent. e terms meson and mesal, ectad and eni rs 
dorsad and ventrad, and the compounds on p. 32 are useful a 
verbs, but we should hesitate before using the terms ppb 
orsicumbent, latericumbent, cephaloduct, dextriflexion, OF pete 
flexion, or even caudiduct. On the rare occasions when 4 gees 
up man has occasion to pull a cat’s tail, we should say 5° in 
many Saxon words, The term transection for transverse See 
and hemisection for longitudinal section, are good innovations. 
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1 Anatomical Technology ds applied to the domestic Cat. An introduction o 
man, veterinary, and comparative anatomy, with illustrations. By BURT & Co. 8yo, 
and Simon H. Gace. New York and Chicago, 1882, A. S. Barnes 
