Animal Kingdoma INDEX AND SYNOPSIS

-^W A CLASSIFIED INDEX AND SYNOPSIS ANIMAL KINGDOM ARRANGED IN CONFORMITY WITH ITS ORGANIZATION, BY THE BARON CUVIER, MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, &c &c &c SUPPLEMENTARY ADDITIONS TO EACH ORDER, EDWARD GRIFFITH, F.R.S S.A & L.S CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF ^IW^-kL SClEA'CES OF PHILADELPHIA, &C gf >' AND OTHERS v., LONDON: PRINTED FOR WHITTAKER AND AVE-MARIA-LANE MDCCCXXXV ^R CO, w^ Digitized by the Internet Arciiive in 2011 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://www.archive.org/details/animalkingdomindexcuvi A Ci ^B / U,H.L CONSPECTUS ENTIRE ANIMAL KINGDOM ANIMALIA CUui Diviisif/n Mammalia AvEs Kept ILIA Pisces Cephalopoda Pteropoda VERTEiJjlATA i r J I GaSTEPvOPODA MOLLUSCA acephala Bp.achiopoda CiRKHOPODA Ankelides Crustacea Arachnides < § ^ III ARTICULATA Insecta Echinodermata Entozoa S V IV RADIAT All animals may be reduced Acaleph^: Polypi InfusoPwIa It to one or other of these classes though the term Invertebrata' is introduced, The reason it is not employed as significant of any peculiar form of this is, that it is merely a negative character, and such should never be used where positive can be obtained Its vagueness is evident from its belonging to three out of four of the great primary divisions of the 'Animal Kingdom.' will be observed, that ' a DIV IV I — VERTEBRATA VERTEBRATA CLASS I.— MAMMALIA This class is divided into nine orders Order Class Bimana Quadruraana Carnassier Unujuiculata Marsupiata Rodentia Edentata Mammalia Ruminantia Pachydermata > Ungulata Cetacea With respect to the term Carnassier, used by Cuvier for his third some observations will be found in our second volume, at the commencement of the supplementary matter on the order order, ORDER L— Bimana This order contains only one genus, and a single species, with under varieties, as here Genus its : Species Varieties / Caucasian Homo \2 Mongolian