Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the vertebrate animals : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, in 1844 and 1846. Part 1 Fishes / by Richard Owen.

  • Richard Owen
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1846
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    ADVERTISEMENT. The increasing professional avocations of my friend Mr. W. White Cooper having prevented his rendering the kind aid which led to the publication of the “ Lectures on the Inverte- brata” so speedily after their delivery, a longer delay has oc- curred in the preparation for the press of those on the Ver- tebrate Animals than was originally contemplated. Such notes of these Lectures as Mr. Cooper had leisure to take he has kindly placed at my disposal, and they have served to recal characteristic expressions and ideas which suggested themselves in the course of the oral demonstrations. The desire to verify some of the propositions then enunciated, by repeating the ob- servations on which they were founded, has led to many new dissections and examinations of numerous specimens, and re- ference is made to all those that form part of the Hunterian Museum. I have, also, reconsulted most of the original authorities from which the great bulk of the information im- parted in the Lecture-room had been derived: and a list is given of the Works referred to in the text. The utility of the present Volume has been further regarded, by ingrafting into the text some remarkable discoveries witii
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