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351. ANATOMY, Knowledge of.—[continued].

I have just received * * * two volumes of Comparative Anatomy by
Cuvier, probably the greatest work in that line
that has ever appeared. His comparisons embrace
every organ of the animal carcass; and
from man to the rotifer.—
To Dr. Benjamin Rush. Washington ed. iv, 385. Ford ed., viii, 33.
(W. 1801)