Excerpt from Horses' Teeth: A Treatise on Their Mode of Development, Anatomy, Microscopy, Pathology, and Dentistry; Compared With the Teeth of Many Other Land and Marine Animals, Both Living and Extinct; With a Vocabulary and Copious Extracts From the Works of Odotologists and Veter

HE favorable reception of the first edition of this work by both press and public and my desire to encourage the study of Veterinary Science and Comparative Anatomy are the chief reasons for a Revised Edition. The improvements consist in an Appendix, numerous Illustrations, a new Index, and the correction of errors in and the addition of fresh matter to the text and vocabulary.

I am indebted to Mr. Jacob L. Wortman of Phil adelphia for the able article on fossil horses in the Appendix, and to Prof. E. D. Cope, editor of The American Naturalist, for a careful revision and im provement of it. Some of the reference notes, how ever, are my own.

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