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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VII. 
‘ These series of organs from different species 
are arranged according to their relations to the 
great functions of organic and animal life, and 
the general scheme is closely analogous to that 
adopted by Baron Cuvier in his “ Lecons 
d’Anatomie Comioaree,” and in the best modern 
works on physiology. 
‘ It has been a subject of much consideration 
with me, having fulfilled, in one respect, the 
obligations to the memory of the founder of the 
collection, how to present the general principles 
and leading facts of comparative anatomy with 
most profit and utility to my junior auditors ; and 
I trust that the plan which I propose to adopt for 
the present course and that of next year will 
enable me to give a complete view of the science 
within that space, which shall not be less subser- 
vient to the illustration of physiology than were the 
preceding lectures given on the system indicated 
by the arrangement of the Hunterian preparations. 
‘ It is very true that, by tracing the progressive 
additions to an organ through the animal series 
from its simplest to its most complex structure 
we learn what part is essential, what auxiliary 
to its office ; and the successive series of pre- 
parations in Hunter’s Physiological Collection 
strikingly and beautifully Illustrate this connection 
between comparative anatomy and physiology. 
‘ But it is by the comparison of the particular 
grades of complication of one organ with that of 
