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Show xxvi PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. the Zoological Illustrations of M. Swainson, and in the Zoological Journal published by able naturalists in London. The Journals of the Lyceum of New York, and of the Academy of Natural Sciences ofPhiladelphia, are not less precious; but in proportion as the taste for natural history becomes extended, and the more numerous the countries in which it is cultivated, the number of its acquisitions increase in geometrical progression, and it becomes more and more difficult to collect all the writings of naturalists, and to complete the table of their results; I rely therefore on the indulgence of those whose observations may have escaped me, or whose works I may not have sufficiently studied. My celebrated friend and colleague M. Latreille, as in the first edition, having consented to take upon himself the important and difficult subject of the Crustacea, Arachnides and Insects, will himself point out the path he has pursued; so that on these points I need say nothing more here. Jardin du Roi, October 1828. SYSTEMATIC INDEX. INTRODUCTION Of natural history Of living beings and or-ganization in general 7 Division of organized beings into animals and vegetables 11 Of the forms peculiar to the organic elements of the animal body, and of the principal combinations of its chemi-cal elements 13 Of the forces which act in the animal body 16 Summary idea of the functions and organs of the bodies or animals and of their various de~rees of complication 19 Of the intellectual func-tions of animals 25 Of method as applied. to the animal kingdom 29 Distribution of the animal kingdom into four great divisions 30 OF THE VERTEBRATA IN GENERAL 33 Subdivision of the Vertebrata into four classes 36 MAMMALIA 38 Orders of the Mammalia 42 BIMANA 44 ~an 44 Peculiar conforma-tion of ~an 1 45 Physical and moral development of Man 48 Varieties of the human species QUADRUMANA 52 55 56 57 57 Simi a Simia proper Pithecus Hilobates Cercopithecus Semnopithecus Macae us 59 60 62 63 64 64 66 Inuus Cynocephalus Mandrills Monkeys of .!lmerica Sapajous Mycetes Ateles Lagothrix Sajous Sauniri Snkis Callithrix Nocthora Ouistitis Midas Lemur Lemur proper Indris Loris Galago Tarsi us CARNARIA CHEIROPTERA Vespertilio Pteropus Cephalotes Vespertilio proper Molossus Dinops Nyctinomus Noctilio Phyllostoma Me gad erma Rhinolophus Nycteris Rhinopoma 66 66 66 67 68 69 69 70 70 71 71 72 72 73 73 73 74 74 75 76 76 77 78 78 79 79 79 80 80 81 81 82 82 |
