Text-book of comparative anatomy . AUTHORS PREFACE TO PART I1 WHEN requested by the publishers to undertake a new edition ofDr. Oscar Schmidts Text-book of Comparative Anatomy, I found that thiscould only be done in one of two ways. Either the revision must belimited to trivial alterations, and to a different choice and a greaternumber of illustrations, or the book must be entirely re-written. Ichose the latter course, which the great advance made in zoologicalresearch seemed to render unavoidable. The result is the Text-book ofComparative Anatomy, the first part of which I now publish. In com
Text-book of comparative anatomy . AUTHORS PREFACE TO PART I1 WHEN requested by the publishers to undertake a new edition ofDr. Oscar Schmidts Text-book of Comparative Anatomy, I found that thiscould only be done in one of two ways. Either the revision must belimited to trivial alterations, and to a different choice and a greaternumber of illustrations, or the book must be entirely re-written. Ichose the latter course, which the great advance made in zoologicalresearch seemed to render unavoidable. The result is the Text-book ofComparative Anatomy, the first part of which I now publish. In compiling the book I have endeavoured to do full justice tothe numerous important results of the research of the last decades. Ihave been less anxious to supply a complete and detailed compendiumof Comparative Anatomy than to emphasise those points which it seemsto me are deserving of special attention. The present work in manyrespects exceeds the limits till now usually assigned to text-books ofComparative Anatomy. It contains, sepa
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