SYSTEMATIC INDEX. 



INTRODUCTION 1 



Of natural history 1 



Of living beings and or- 

 ganization in general 7 

 Division of organized be- 

 ings into animals and 

 vegetables 1 1 



Of the forms peculiar to 

 the organic elements of 

 the animal body, and 

 of the principal com- 

 binations of its chemi- 

 cal elements 13 

 Of the forces which act in 



the animal body 16 



Summary idea of the func- 

 tions and organs of the 

 bodies of animals, and 

 of their various degrees 

 of complication 19 



Of the intellectual func- 

 tions of animals 25 

 Of method as applied to 



the animal kingdom 29 

 Distribution of the ani- 

 mal kingdom into four 

 great divisions 30 



OF THE VERTEBRATA 

 IN GENERAL 33 



Subdivision of the Verte- 

 brata into four classes 36 

 MAMMALIA 38 



Orders of the Mammalia 42 

 BIMANA 44 



Man 44 



Peculiqir conforma- 

 tion of Man 45 

 Physical and moral 

 development of 

 Man 48 



Varieties of the hu- 

 man species 52 

 QUADRUMANA 55 

 Simla 56 

 Simla proper 57 

 Pithecus 57 

 Hilobates 59 

 Cercopithecus 60 

 Semnopithecus 62 

 Macacus 63 

 Inuus 64 

 Cynocephalus 64 

 Mandrills 66 

 Monkeys of America 66 

 Sapajous 66 

 Mycetes 66 

 Ateles 67 

 Lagothris 68 

 Sajous 69 

 Saimiri 69 

 Sakis 70 

 Callithrix 70 

 Nocthora 71 

 Ouistitis 71 

 . Midas 72 

 Lemur 72 

 Lemur proper 73 

 Indris 73 

 Loris 73 

 Galago 74 

 Tarsius 74 

 CARNARIA 75 

 CHEIROPTERA 76 

 Vespertilio 76 

 Pteropus 77 

 Cephalotes 78 

 Vespertilio proper 78 

 Molossus 79 

 Dinops 79 

 Nyctinomus 79 

 Noctilio 80 

 Phyllostoma 80 

 Megaderma 81 

 Rhinolophus 81 

 Nycteris 82 

 Rhinopoma 82 



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