20 Organs of the Animal Body : their Forms and Uses. 
be read by those who desire to study the subject further will 
be given at the end of the paper ; but special mention must be 
made of the very complete work entitled, ' The Comparative 
Anatomy of the Domesticated Animal,' by Mons. A. Chaveau, 
Professor at the Lyons Veterinary School. This book has been 
brought within the reach of the English reader by Dr. George 
Fleming, who did the arduous work of translating it in 1873. 
The woodcuts are, from an anatomist's point of view, very 
beautiful, and many of them are introduced into this paper by 
permission of the publishers, Messrs. J. and H. Churchill and 
Messrs. Balliere fils, of Paris. 
Keeping in view Practice with Science, it is proposed, in 
describing the structures of animals, to assume that the farmer 
is looking on while a rough sort of cutting-up or dissection of a 
dead animal is being done, and it may be further assumed that 
the looker-on has got from seeing pictures of the bones in their 
proper places, or the actual bones in a museum, an idea of the 
skeleton, a knowledge of which he cannot gain by cutting up a 
carcass in the field. 
To assist the inquirer in getting some notion of the bony 
frames of the animals of the farm, advantage has been taken of 
the excellent cuts in Chauveau's book just mentioned, and in 
the four following illustrations will be seen the skeletons of the 
horse, cow, sheep, and pig. 
Fig. 1. — Skeleton of the Horse. 
