Produced by deaurider, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’s Notes Text printed in italics in the source document has been transcribed _between underscores_, text printed in bold face =between equal signs=. Small capitals have been transcribed as ALL CAPITALS. More Transcriber’s Notes may be found at the end of this text. ANATOMY OF THE CAT BY JACOB REIGHARD _Professor of Zoology in the University of Michigan_ AND H. S. JENNINGS _Instructor in Zoology in the University of Michigan_ WITH _ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-THREE ORIGINAL FIGURES_ DRAWN BY LOUISE BURRIDGE JENNINGS [Illustration] NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1901 ROBERT DRUMMOND, PRINTER, NEW YORK. PREFACE. Although the cat has long been in common use for the practical study of mammalian anatomy, a clear, correct, not too voluminous account of its structure, such as should be in the hands of students in the laboratory, has remained a desideratum. A number of works have been published on the cat, some of them of much value, yet there is none which fulfils exactly the conditions mentioned. The books which have appeared on this subject are the following: 1. Strauss-Durckheim, H. Anatomie descriptive et comparative du Chat. 2 vols. Paris, 1845. 2. Mivart, St. George. The Cat: an Introduction to the Study of Back-boned Animals, especially Mammals. New York, 1881. 3. Wilder, Burt G., and Gage, Simon H. Anatomical Technology as applied to the Domestic Cat. New York, 1882. 4. Gorham, F. P., and Tower, R. W. A Laboratory Guide for the Dissection of the Cat. New York, 1895. 5. Jayne, H. Mammalian Anatomy. Vol. I. Philadelphia, 1898. The first of these works treats only of the muscles and bones, and is not available for American students. Its excellent plates (or Williams’s outline reproductions of the same) should be in every laboratory. The second book named is written in such general terms that its descriptions are not readily applicable to the actual structures found in the dissection of the cat, and experience has shown that it is not fitted for a laboratory handbook. It contains, in addition to a general account of the anatomy of the cat, also a discussion of its embryology, psychology, palæontology, and classification. The book by Wilder and Gage professedly uses the cat as a means of illustrating technical methods and a special system of nomenclature. While of much value in many ways, it does not undertake to give a complete account of the anatomy of the animal. The fourth work is a brief laboratory guide. The elaborate treatise by Jayne, now in course of publication, is a monumental work, which will be invaluable for reference, but is too voluminous to place in the hands of students. At present only the volume on the bones has been published.