Volume 1

Lectures on comparative anatomy / translated from the French of G. Cuvier ... by William Ross ; under the inspection of James Macartney.

  • Georges Cuvier
Date:
1802
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Lectures on comparative anatomy / translated from the French of G. Cuvier ... by William Ross ; under the inspection of James Macartney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    No labour or exertion has been spared by Mr. Ross ; and, in revising his manuscript> I have constantly and attentively compared it with the original Work, making such alterations as seemed necessary to render the Author's meaning more plain. The style is> course, the Translator's own : but I con- sider myself responsible for the fidelity of the Translation, as far as respects the science. The names of the Muscles, which are in- troduced from the new French Nomencla- ture, have been rendered into Latin, as be- ing most consistent with the general usagd of Anatomists, and to avoid the circumlo- cution they would unavoidably produce in the English language. The same mode has been adopted with respect to many of the terms of Natural History. In every instance, hoVrcver>
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