KEOOKD 
OF 
ZOOLOGICAL LITERATUKE. 
MAMMALIA 
BY 
Albert Gunther, M.A., M.D., Ph.D. 
A. Separate Publications. 
Owen, R. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates. London, 1866. 
8vo. Vol. I. Fishes and Reptiles, pp. xxii & 650. Vol. II. 
Birds and Mammals, pp. 586. 
It is with sineere pleasure that we eommence this yearns Reeord 
by noticing a work which, being the first of its kind in English 
literature, will be received by all the more advanced students of 
science as a welcome guide, and will be studied and consulted 
far beyond the boundaries of the language and time in which it 
is written. To produce tlic first standard English work on 
Comparative Anatomy was a task which naturally devolved on 
Professor Owen, who effectually domiciled this branch of science 
on English soil, and whose previous life and labours may be 
regarded as preparatory to it. It will be welcomed particularly 
by those cultivators of zoology who, by combining the study of 
external and internal organization, endeavour to rescue zoology 
^^from the imputation that it is a pursuit which may be called, 
‘ euphonistically, science.^' 
The j)resent work treats of the Vertebrates only, completing 
the outline of the organization of the animal kingdom, which 
was begun in the author^s ^ Lectures on the Comparative 
Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals.’ As 
regards the general plan, it is more comprehensive than any 
of the exhaustive treatises of the anatomists of the Conti- 
1866. [vol. III.] 
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