TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 

 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND 



EDITION . 



INTRODUCTION . 



Of Natural History, and of Systems gene- 

 rally ..... 

 Of living Beings, and of Organization in 

 general ..... 

 Division of Organized Beings into Animal 

 and Vegetable .... 

 Of the Forms peculiar to the Organic Ele- 

 ments of the Animal Body, and of the 

 principal Combinations of its Chemical 

 Elements .... 

 Of the Forces which act in the Animal Body 

 Summary idea of the Functions and Organs 

 of the Bodies of Animals, and of their 

 various degrees of complication 

 Of the Intellectual Functions of Animals . 

 Of Method, as applied to the Animal King- 

 dom ..... 

 General Distribution of the Animal King- 

 dom into four great Divisions — Vertebrate 

 Animals, Molluscous Animals, Articulate 

 Animals, Radiate Animals 

 VERTEBRATE ANIMALS 

 Subdivision into four Classes 

 MAMMALIA 

 Division into Orders 

 Himana, or Man 

 Peculiar Conformation of Man 

 Physical and Moral Developement of 



Man 

 Varieties of the Human Species 



QC MHU'MANA 



Monkey-like Animals 



Monkeys of America 

 Carnahia 



Cheiroptera 



Insectivura 



Carnivora 

 Mahsufiata 



B ENTIA 



EDENTATA 



i Irdinai y Bdentata 



M Hremata 



Paohydskmata 

 Proboecidea 



< Ordinary Pachydermata 

 Solidongola 



1 I RUMINANTIA 



Without horns 

 10 ■ With horns 



13 Cetacka 



Herbivora 

 13 Ordinaria 



Analogies of the Teeth of Mam 



10 MALIA 



OVIPAROUS VERTEBRATES IN GENE- 

 19 RAL 



AVES 

 Division into Orders 

 Accipitres 



21 Diurnal Birds of Prey 



22 Nocturnal Birds of Prey 

 Passerine 



Dentirostres 

 25 Fissirostres 



28 Conirostres 



Tenuirostres 



31 Syndactyli 

 scansores 

 Affinities of the three trecedin 



Orders 



32 GALLINiS 



35 Gralljb 



37 Brevipennea 



38 Pressirostres 

 41 Cultrirostres 



44 Lonjirostres 



45 Macrodactyli 

 Palmipedes 



47 Brachypteres 



4u Longipennea 



54 Totipalmati 



54 l.amrllirostres 



60 REPTILIA 



C6 ClIELONIA 



07 Bauria 

 77 'I'll'' Crocodiles 



82 The t.i/ards 



100 The Iguanas 



107 The Geckotiana 



122 The Chameleona 



ijt The Scindoidiena 



196 Orii 1 1 > i v. 

 1 28 The Orvets 



138 l'hi- True Serpents 



130 The Naked Serpenta 



133 Bai-kachia 



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