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IT is just a century since the birth of Henry Gray, a brilliant anatomist who was elected a fellow of the Royal Society at the early age of twenty-five years, and in his thirtieth year published his textbook, “Anatomy: Descriptive and Applied,” which after passing through twenty-three editions in the sixty-nine years of its existence is more popular than ever with students.
Anatomy: Descriptive and Applied.
By Henry Gray. Twenty-third edition, edited by Prof. Robert Howden. Notes on Applied Anatomy revised by John Clay and Dr. James Dunlop Lickley. Pp. xvi + 1400. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1926.) 42s. net.
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Anatomy: Descriptive and Applied . Nature 119, 921 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119921c0
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