ON gurlt’s anatomy of the horse. 605 
(p. 48), in which you speak of a translation, and a very useful, 
and skilfully performed enlargement of Gurlt's too concise Ger¬ 
man and Latin explanation of the figures.” 
Having, like too many of my brethren, not had the advantage 
of a classical education (why, gentlemen, do you not take up 
this point. A great deal depends, certainly, on the situation into 
which we are thrown—but there are few situations in which this 
is not, in some way or other, a serious inconvenience to us, and 
in very many it is an irreparable misfortune), I immediately 
caught at this, and in less than a fortnight the first part of the 
work was mine. I acknowledge that I was pleased with it. The 
cuts, making allow'ance for a little roughness, are neatly done ; 
and, so far as old recollections go, and I have been enabled to 
compare them with the actual subject, they are very correct. 
I was puzzled in one or two instances about the muscles. 
I compared Gurlt with my dried preparations, and he was wrong 
and I was right. I was mentioning this to a brother pmcti- 
tioner with whom I associate on the friendly terais that should 
exist between us, and whom I esteem as one vet. ought to be 
able to esteem his fellow’, and he drily advised me not to be too 
sure. Tor my dried preparation was that of the ass—Gurlt de¬ 
scribed the horse. We got a limb from William, the huntsman, 
just by, and lo and behold ! Gurlt was right, and I was wTong. 
To what extent this may go, the pressure of a country practice 
will not permit me now to inquire. 
But, of this said translation.—I was a little startled before I 
got through the skeleton. I was looking at the knee. The 
bones of the carpus are very prettily given,” thought I ; and then 
I could not at the instant recall the names of them, and I turned 
to the explanatory letter-press, and there I read, as constituting the 
first row, os semilunare, os triquetrum, os^naviculare, and, be¬ 
hind, os haraatum ; and, in the second row, qs multangulum 
majus, ditto minus, anid os capitatura. Whew !” thought I, 
again, ‘‘ this is all Greek to me ; and is this my friend’s ‘ use¬ 
fully and skilfully performed translation V Let me see w ho is this 
translator? * J. Willimot, member of the University of Berlin/ 
and who tells me in his preface, that ' to render the book more 
generally useful, he has added to the technical expressions, those 
veterinary terms most commonly made use of in English society.’ 
Has he, indeed ? Am I on my head or ray heels ?” 
I turned at hap-hazard to some cut of the muscles. I opened 
at plate X, and I took fig. 1, and I had the fourth layer of 
muscles as seen from the left side. Here 1 am puzzled by the 
three heads of the splenius capitis. I turn to Percivall, and I 
find the sp/oiius with its three heads, but no distinction between 
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