Transcriber’s Notes
Language inconsistencies and errors in spelling, capitalisation and hyphenation and in the translations of terms have been retained, except as mentioned under Changes below. The textual differences between the list of illustrations and the illustration captions have not been standardised.
Scale references (× ²⁄₃ etc.) are based on the source document, not on this e-text.
Page 123, paragraph Pubi-ischio-femoralis Externus: (Plate III., Fig. 1, p. is. f. int., Plate IV., Fig. 1, p. is. f. int.) should possibly read (Plate III., Fig. 1, p. is. f. ext., Plate IV., Fig. 1, p. is. f. ext.).
Page 273-274: ... to the region of the midbrain (v²) ...: v² does not occur in Plates XVIII. or XIX.; ... at the side of the forebrain (v′) ...: v′ occurs in Plate XVII.
Some of the numbers in round brackets refer to the bibliography at the end of the text; these have been linked to the bibliography. In some bibliographical references the source document shows blank spaces rather than first names.
Changes made
Footnotes and illustrations have been moved out of text paragraphs; some ditto marks have been replaced with the dittoed text.
The references to plates (for example those after page 130) have been standardised regarding the use of commas and italicised abbreviations.
Some minor typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected silently, as have some minor lay-out and typographical inconsistencies.
Page vii, items 10 and 11: captions of individual photographs have been added.
Page 3: repeated footnote marker [2] removed from last column of Caiman niger.
Page 51: ... skeleton of Tomistoma schlegali ... changed to ... skeleton of Tomistoma schlegeli ....
Page 72, caption with Fig. 24: supraangular changed to supra-angular.
Page 87, caption with Fig. 29: tb¹ changed to tb′ cf. illustration.
Page 107: entsprect changed to entsprecht.
Page 165: Gescmackwärzchen changed to Geschmackwärzchen.
Page 258: ... as shown in Figures 9 and 9b. changed to ... as shown in Figures 9a and 9b.
Page 343, item 12: Das Skelet der Krokodiliner changed to Das Skelet der Krokodilinen.
Page 345, item 36a: experimentallen changed to experimentellen; item 47: struttura del cruore changed to struttura del cuore.
Page 347, item 67: des Menchen changed to des Menschen; item 70: Auricular höcker changed to Auricularhöcker; item 80: Het. Institute changed to Het Instituut.
Index: some spellings corrected to reflect the spelling as used in the text (coranoid to coronoid, Cyanocephalus to Cynocephalus, Gescmackwärzchen to Geschmackwärzchen).