BYSTEMA NATURE. 19 



at all events so far as soil and its products are concerned; but I shall 

 probably repeat my visit, and have more leisure to pohs about in search 

 of curiosities, and if I find any, be assured that you shall have the result. 



Londorij November^ 1854. 



SYSTEMA NATURE. 



BY THE REV. F. O. MORRIS. 



A systematic catalogue of Nature is the one thing which, more than 

 any other, seems to me to be wanting to students of her page, a true 

 'pagina pulchra.' As it is at present, when any new species is discovered, 

 and even, it may be, duly chronicled, its proper place as a component part 

 of the great whole is not taken: although "secured" it is kept outside the 

 door, in this or that ^volume, probably of a periodical or magazine, and 

 though there to be found by those who will take the trouble of hunting 

 for it, with or without a clue, yet to all others its existence remains as 

 unknown as if it had never had being, or had never been introduced to 

 the acquaintance of science. 



Too well I know not only how imperfect any first attempt at supplying 

 such a desideratum as that I have thus briefly indicated the want of must 

 be, but how still more imperfect such imperfection will appear in an essay 

 made by me towards the filling up the void. Still I am so deeply con- 

 vinced of the greatness of the want, that I have determined to endeavour 

 to carry into eflFect the idea which I have long wished and intended to 

 make an attempt to work out. It will, however, even though most defi- 

 cient, be still so extensive in its development, that I must not take up a 

 single line that I can help, even with the most necessary apology. I will 

 but therefore say in brief that the following is only meant to be as it 

 were, a first and rough ^^Proof-sheet" of an ^^Annual," which, when once 

 brought to its temporary end, may then be yearly "revised," with "cor- 

 rections and additions;" until at last, long probably after I myself shall 

 have left the scene, it may, Heres atque rotundus,' shew in one wide but 

 comprehensive view the vast extent of the works of the Great Creator. 



OEDO I.— Bimana. 

 FAMILIA UNICA.— Homo. 



Homo. 

 Homo sapiens. 



OEDO II. — QUADETTMANA. 



FAMILIA I.— SiMiA. 

 troglodytes. 

 Troglodytes niger, Schinz. 

 Simla Pan, Donovan. 

 Simla Satyrus, Linnceus. 

 Simla pygmaea, Schreber. 



