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his peculiar ideas respecting the plantaris muscle. He calls 
it the c Soleaire/ or Soleus, and, speaking of synonymes, says, 
“ Bourgelat and his successors have wrongly assimilated it to 
the plantaris of man.’ 5 One thing is certain, it is not the 
human soleus, this is the gastrocnemius internus, and not the 
plantaris of our quadrupeds. Again our author errs in saying 
“ the carnivora have no plantaris.” The dog has none, we 
admit, but the feline tribe possess it ; and in the lion it is 
enormously developed. 
In conclusion, we cannot but allude to the happily grow- 
ing tendency to illustrate anatomical works. Gurlt’s plates, 
published many years ago, evidently gave a great impetus in 
that direction. Many scattered plates have since appeared : 
but Professor Leyh, of Stuttgart, was the first one to con- 
tribute largely to the work commenced by the great anatomist 
of Berlin. To Chauveau, for a similar reason, much credit 
is due. He must have been indefatigable in placing his dis- 
sected preparations in a position natural to the living animal, 
and exemplifying them to the utmost. They are a most useful 
guide to the student in dissection ; and although some of his 
woodcuts are. singularly deficient in an artistic point of view, 
partly because badly printed, they are in general anatomically 
correct. It is to be regretted that the printer has not more 
satisfactorily carried out the munificent idea of the publishers, 
who, in issuing Colin’s and Chauveau’s * Treatises on Com- 
parative Anatomy and Physiology,’ have conferred on the 
veterinary profession, and through it on the whole medical 
republic, one of the most signal among the many advantages 
for which science is indebted to them. 
If it be thought that we have unduly criticised this work, it 
is because it has inspired us with great esteem for its author, 
who will, we confidently anticipate, ere long be engaged in 
the preparation of a new edition, so rapid must be the sale of 
the present one. We have reason to believe that it is in 
progress of translation into Italian, and we hope that all 
students in the schools of comparative anatomy throughout 
Europe may, before many years elapse, have the privilege of 
studying it in their own vernaculars. 
