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We then come to the anatomical dechnigue, or technology, to 
which ninety pages are devoted. The instructions, descriptions 
of instruments and apparatus are minute and exhaustive, ranging 
from a description of injecting syringes and anesthetic box down 
to that of the waste pail, the bottle brush, and killing fleas. The 
descriptions are indeed so circumstantial that a fool may not err 
therein. On p. 79 we are told how cats may be caught, and a cat 
net and bag attached like a net to a hoop and pole, are suggested 
when the cat can’t be inveigled by moral or manual suasion. 
Chapter second begins with a general description of the skele- 
ton, when the authors suddenly break off to discuss abdominal 
landmarks and abdominal and thoracic transection, and then fol- 
lows a long chapter (the third) on the preparation of bones, and 
the details of preparation and arrangement of anatomical speci- 
mens in the museum. The student is finally, in chapter fifth, 
brought back to the study of the skeleton bones. 
The directions for dissecting the muscles, viscera and nervous 
systems, and their description, are clear and sufficiently circumstan- 
tial. A good deal of space is given to the brain. An appendix 
contains valuable hints, mostly relating to anatomical technol- 
ogy, including the method of pithing a frog. 
The illustrations are an important feature of the book. They 
are usually well, though not elegantly, drawn, and the several 
bones, muscles, and viscera are distinctly lettered, though the 
lettering is rather clumsy. 
By leaving out certain portions (including the three sets of 
aphorisms), some twenty or thirty pages might have been saved, 
and the cat’s hindquarters and other parts described, and the two 
sets of limbs compared, to the student’s advantage. 
While it must seem to the beginner, who has this book before 
him, a very formidable and solemn matter to dissect a cat, yet the 
work has been so conscientiously prepared that it will be very 
useful to the teacher as well as the student, and now that Tulk and 
enfrey’s Anatomical Manipulation (a work, by the way, not 
mentioned by the authors) is out of print, this is the only hand- 
book of the kind in the language. 
RECENT Books AND PAMPHLETS. 
Stearns, Winfrid A., edited by Coues, Elliott —New England Bird Life, being a man- 
ual of New England Ornithology. Part 11. Non-oscine Passeres, birds of prey, 
game and water Birds. Boston, Lee & Shepard, 1883. From the author. 
Gaudry, Albert—Les enchainement du Monde Animal dans les temps géologiques. 
Fossiles primaires. Paris; Librarie F. Savy, I 83. rom the author. : 
, Persifor.—Notes from the literature on the Geology of Egypt, and examina- 
tion of the syenitic granite of the obelisk which Lieut.-Commander Gorringe, 
U.S.N., brought to New York. Ext. Trans. Amer- Inst. Ming. Eng. 
From the author. i 
aeter iron ores of the Middle James river, Ext. idem. read 1881. From the 
author. i 
Hill, Albert C-—Management of structural steel. Ext, Trans, Amer. Inst. Ming. 
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