Transcriber’s notes:

In this transcription, hyperlinking has been applied to page references,as well as references to illustrations and footnotes. Hyperlinks areindicated by black dotted underlines (plus aqua highlighting when themouse pointer hovers over them). Page numbers are shown in the rightmargin. The footnotes, which are located at the end of the book, arethemselves hyperlinked back to the originating marker to facilitate easyreturn to the text. A red dashed underline indicates the presence of atranscriber’s comment; scrolling the mouse pointer over such textwill reveal the comment.

Errors and inconsistencies:
The text contains numerous inconsistencies of hyphenation. A few havebeen adjusted where there was clear evidence of a preferred style (e.g.meso-colic-->mesocolic and meso-duodenum-->mesoduodenum) but most havebeen left in their original format.

A few spelling typos have been corrected silently (e.g.improtant-->important, mecocolon-->mesocolon) and missing letters havebeen inserted inside square brackets (e.g. junct[i]on, t[r]ansverse).Some spelling inconsistencies possibly represent contemporarilyacceptable spelling alternatives (e.g. coati/coaiti, mesal/mesial,præcava/precava, hyæna/hyena). The term STOMADÆUM is incorrectly speltas STOMADŒUM in Figs. 27 and 101, and Fig. 250 has an incorrect label onthe R. vitelline vein.

A small number of punctuation inconsistencies have been correctedsilently by insertion of missing punctuation or deletion of redundantpunctuation.

The abbreviation viz. appears inconsistently in both roman and italicfont.

Illustrations:
The book contains 582 variously-sized illustrations that were originallyclustered into 300 plates dispersed in groups throughout the book. Scansof the images were irregularly discoloured, unevenly illuminated andvaried in their size and resolution. Except for the largest images,which have been reduced, their relative sizes have been retained and thecleaned up images have been relocated close to their relevant mention inthe text. Their number and varied size posed challenges for creating alayout that could be viewed and read comfortably – a browser widthof 1000-1100 pixels is optimal, and some browsers display them moreclearly than others. Sharp-eyed readers will note that references in thetext to image labels such as X, A, B, 1, 2, etc. are not consistentlystyled (roman/italic, upper/lower case).

Table of Contents:
The numbering system and font styling of the TOC is not consistentwithin the TOC nor with the corresponding headings in the text, and someTOC entries correspond to in-line text rather than to true headings. Noattempt has been made to remedy these inconsistencies. One missing TOCentry has been inserted.

Index:
The index is shown as it originally appeared – with some entriesnot in correct alphabetic sequence.