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WE have received the only part as yet published of this treatise, viz., that relating to the Birds. Mr. Morrell gives with great care, in a tabular form when possible, a condensation of all the information to be obtained in such works as Huxley's “Lectures on the Skull,” and “Classification of Birds,” Wagner's, Siebold's and other manuals, and the “Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology,” supplementing this by extracts from his own notes of dissections in the anatomical laboratories of the Oxford University Museum, and of Professor Rolleston's lectures given there. It is proposed to issue an atlas of woodcuts borrowed from various works to illustrate the letterpress. The book will be found very convenient by students at Oxford and elsewhere, who are carefully studying the comparative anatomy of the Vertebrata. We must decidedly object, however, to the omission of one group of organs entirely—the reproductive. It is a concession to a strange prejudice, and really renders a good work incomplete.
The Student's Manual of Comparative Anatomy and Guide to Dissection.
By G. Herbert Morrell (Oxford: Shrimpton.)
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L., E. The Student's Manual of Comparative Anatomy and Guide to Dissection . Nature 3, 184 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003184a0
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