Artistic Anatomy of Animals

The trunk being, in quadrupeds, horizontal in direction (Fig. 1), the two regions of which it consists occupy, for this reason, the following positions: the thorax occupies the...

The first point to decide in commencing this study is the order in which we shall consider the different muscles which we have to examine. It must not be forgotten that in the p...

Let it be permitted to us to remind the reader in this connection that we have already been for twenty-one years occupied with this question, and that by means of an articulated...

Inasmuch as we have taken for granted, in connection with the present volume, that before entering on the study of the anatomy of quadrupeds the reader was prepared for it by a...

We will first recall to mind that among the quadrupeds some are found of which the fingers and toes have their third phalanges terminated by claws--these are the unguiculates; a...

1. A HUMAN SKELETON IN THE ATTITUDE OF A QUADRUPED, TO GIVE A GENERAL IDEA OF THE POSITION OF THE BONES IN OTHER VERTEBRATES 5 2. SIZE OF THE ATLAS COMPARED WITH THE TRANSVERSE...