Syllabus Of Lectures On The Vertebrata Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from A Course of Instruction in Zootomy: Vertebrata The advantage of the study of Comparative over that of Human Anatomy lies in the fact that in the former the dry facts are, to borrow an expression of Dr. Michael F oster's, salted with the salt of morphological ideas. But if the same thoroughness in practical work is not demanded of the student of Animal Morphology as of the medical student, if he is allowed to shirk the discipline of laborious dissection, and to be content with a general notion of the structure of the types he examines, he runs a very serious risk of getting uncommonly little meat to his salt, and of losing in depth what he gains in breadth. It was therefore necessary to decide how much might be left out without leading the student into a superficial way of working; and in striving to keep the mean between the two extremes of too much stiffness in refusing and of too much easiness in allowing any omissions, I am only too well aware how largely the personal equation enters into questions of this sort, and how unsatisfactory the compromise I have decided upon may seem to other teachers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.