anatomist

• In that room I made all the skeletons represented on the plates of Wagler's “Natural System of Reptiles;” there I once received the great anatomist, Meckel, sent to me by Dollinger, to examine my anatomical preparations and especially the many fish-skeletons I had made from fresh-water fishes. —  Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence
• Nevertheless in his realist pictures he exercised himself with all the cold delight of the anatomist, and with none of the warm emotion that might have become communicative. —  Balzac
• But the transformations believed in by the anatomist are as yet proved true in no single instance, and in no substance, spiritual or material; and I cannot too often, or too earnestly, urge you not to waste your time in guessing what animals may once have been, while you remain in nearly total ignorance of what they are 64. —  Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
• When Huxley submitted the proofs of Man's Place in Nature to “a competent anatomist, and good friend of his,” asking him, if he could, to point out any errors of fact, the friend — it was Lawrence himself — declared he could find none, but gave an earnest warning as to the consequences of publication. —  Thomas Henry Huxley
• But the transformations believed in by the anatomist are as yet proved true in no single instance, and in no substance, spiritual or material; and I cannot too often, or too earnestly, urge you not to waste your time in guessing what animals may once have been, while you remain in nearly total ignorance of what they are. —  Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds

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