Daniel and the lions
Palæolithic Men Attacking Cave Bear
My Dog Frisky
The human brain
If the reader has not fully mastered the intricacy of the brain structure, he will find his difficulties removed by studying two more skilful dissections. The following engraving presents the appearances when we cut through the middle of the brain horizontally and reveal the bottom of the ventricles, in which we see the great ganglion, or optic thalamus and corpus striatum, and the three localities at which the hemispheres are connected by fibres on the median line, called anterior, middle, and posterior commissures. These commissures are of no importance in our study; they assist the corpus callosum in maintaining a close connection between the right and left hemispheres.
The Human brain
The engraving represents not an actual dissection, but the plan of the fibres as understood by the anatomist. The intricacy of the cerebral structure is so great that it would require a vast number of skilful dissections and engravings to make a correct portrait. Fortunately, this is not necessary for the general reader, who requires only to understand the position of the organs in the head, and the direction of their growth, which is in all cases directly outward from the central region or ventricles, so as to cause a prominence of the cranium—not a “bump,” but a general fulness of contour. Bumps belong to the growth of bone—not that of the brain.
Dog
Dog
horse
Comfort
Outlines of Manilla Buffalo
Skull of Short-nosed Ox of the Pampas
Free Martin
Chillingham Bull
Kyloe, or Highland Ox
Zebu.—(Var. δ.)
Zebus (var. γ) and Car
Zebu
Brahmin Bull
Head of Musk Ox
Zamouse, or Bush Cow
Arnee from Indian Painting
Horns of Young Arnee
Arnee
Gaur
Head of Gaur
Pegasse
Head of Cape Buffalo
Cape Buffalo
Young Cape Buffalo
Short-horned Bull
Pulo Condore Buffalo
Head of Manilla Buffalo—female
Herefordshire Cow
Manilla Buffalo
Italian Buffalo
Syrian Ox
Jungly Gau
Head of Domestic Gayal
Occipital view of the same Skull
Head of Asseel Gayal
Gayal, from Asiatic Transactions
Head of Gyall
Gyall (Bos Frontalis)
Yak, from Oriental Annual
Yak, from Asiatic Transactions
Aurochs, or European Bison
Head of young male Bison
Skin Canoes of the Mandan Indians
Bison Calf, about three weeks old
Bison surrounded by Wolves
Indian Hunting Bison
Wounded Bison
Young female Bison
The Bison
Skull of Domestic Ox
Stomach of Manilla Buffalo
Alderney Cow
The Sangu, or Abyssinian Ox
Banteng
Hungarian Ox