Elements of the comparative anatomy of vertebrates / adapted from the German by W. Newton Parker with additions by the author and translator.

  • Robert Wiedersheim
Date:
1886
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Credit: Elements of the comparative anatomy of vertebrates / adapted from the German by W. Newton Parker with additions by the author and translator. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto.

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    PEEFACE. Professor Wiedersheim's Grundriss der vergleichenden Anatomie der Wirhelihiere, published at Jena in 1884, was written to supply a need which had been felt for some time past for a short text-book on Vertebrate Anatomy embodying some of the more recent views on the subject. The present book is a modified translation of the Gnindriss, and it is hoped that it will serve to render Professor Wiedersheim's work more widely knoAvn amongst English students. The plan of the original has been retained throughout, though numerous additions and modifications have been made to the work; for many of these I have to thank Professor Wiedersheim, —for others I am myself responsible. I must also express my indebtedness to Professor Wiedersheim for revising the whole translation with me last summer, and for much help while the work was in progress. Within the hmits of a short text-book like the present, much of the matter is of necessity greatly condensed : more detailed accounts of the various parts and organs will be found in the new edition of Professor Wiedersheim's Lehrluch der vergl. Armtomie der Wirhelihiere, which is to appear shortly, and on the first edition of which the Grundriss was founded.
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