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Rh These Lessons are intended for teachers and students of both sexes not ''already acquainted with Anatomy. The author has endeavoured, by'' certain additions and by the mode of treatment, also to fit them for students in medicine, and generally for those acquainted with human anatomy, but desirous of learning its more significant relations to the structure of other ''animals. The says, “It may be questioned whether any other'' work on Anatomy contains in like compass so proportionately great a mass of information.” The remarks, “The work is excellent, and should be in the hands of every student of human anatomy.”

MANUALS FOR STUDENTS.

Flower (W. H.) — . Being the substance of the Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1870. By , Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology. With numerous Illustrations. Globe 8vo. 7s. 6d.

Although the present work contains the substance of a Course of Lectures, the form has been changed, so as the better to adapt it as a handbook for ''students. Theoretical views have been almost entirely excluded: and while'' it is impossible in a scientific treatise to avoid the employment of technical terms, it has been the author's endeavour to use no more than absolutely necessary, and to exercise due care in selecting only those that seem most ''appropriate, or which have received the sanction of general adoption. With'' a very few exceptions the illustrations have been drawn expressly for this work from specimens in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.

The object of this work is to supply students and field-botanists with a fuller account of the Plants of the British Islands than the manuals ''hitherto in use aim at giving. The Ordinal, Generic, and Specific'' characters have been re-written, and are to a great extent original, and ''drawn from living or dried specimens, or both. “Cannot fail to perfectly'' fulfil the purpose for which it is intended.” —. “Containing the fullest and most accurate manual of the kind that has yet appeared.” —.