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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
ous works on practical operative surgery, which have been issued, 
and with the several manuals of operative exercises which are 
now found in all languages, the specialty of surgery in veterin¬ 
ary medicine will not be long in assuming a proper place simi¬ 
lar to that it occupies in her sister science. A. L. 
Atlas der Anatomie des Pferdes (Atlas of Equine Anatomy). By Dr. Med. 
Vet. Reinold Schmaltz, of the Veterinary High School of Berlin. (in part. ) R. 
Schoetz, Berlin. 
We have received from the house of Richard Schoetz, of 
Berlin, the first atlas of a series of four which are to form an il¬ 
lustrated work on the anatomy of the horse, by Prof. Doct. R. 
Schmaltz, V. S., who occupies the chair of anatomy at the Im¬ 
perial Veterinary High School of Berlin. There is no text, prop¬ 
erly speaking,in this work, but the arrangements and minuteness 
and completeness of each figure in each plate are such that one 
who studies them cannot help but become readily familiar with 
the description of the subjects, and learn all about their general 
aspect. In the atlas that we have received there are 23 plates, 
handsomely and correctly done ; each bone, especially those of 
the extremities, showing every peculiarity of their external 
conformation. Among those 23 plates, 10 of them have dupli¬ 
cates, made on thin transparent paper, upon which the outlines 
of the bones are marked in blue ink, and upon these the inser¬ 
tions of each muscle are outlined on dotted lines, which indi¬ 
cate perfectly the boundaries of each insertion. Plates 12, 13, 
14 and 15 show the external appearances of the cervical, dorsal 
and lumbar vertebrae and of the ribs; while the 16th and 
17th show the insertions of muscles. In plate 18 the sternum 
with the triangularis and the bloodvessels. The sacrum 
is illustrated in plate 19. In the 20th we have the lumbar 
regions; plate 21 shows the vertebral column, with the ribs, 
forming the thoracic cavity and the muscles pertaining to it. 
The last two plates show the whole view of the trunk with the 
upper part of the extremities and the insertion of the abdomi¬ 
nal muscles. 
We have carefully examined every plate and every bone 
represented ; we have given minute attention to the drawing of 
the insertions of every muscle, and this study has been for us a 
great source of enjoyment. Years ago, as far back as i860, we 
contributed to the plan of a similar work, the very plates of 
Prof. Schmaltz ; we worked and made them natural size ; but 
the work, nearly finished, was not published for want of an 
editor. Prof. Schmaltz has done well, we believe ; this work 
