MAMMALIA — MAN. 



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seven, — Fere, one hundred seventy-six, — Marsupialia, forty-seven, — 

 Glires, one hundred forty-nine, — Edentata, twenty-four, — Pachyderma, 

 fifty-five, — Ruminantia, ninety-seven, — Cetacea, sixty-two. Of these about 

 three hundred and thirty are frugivorous, or herbivorous; eighty omnivo- 

 rous one hundred and fifty, insectivorous, and two hundred and forty, carni- 

 vorous, in a greater or lesser degree. The number of terrestrial species 

 domesticated by man, (but perhaps including all that are really useful.) 

 amount, only to thirteen. 



ORDER FIRST — BIMANA.* 



MAN. 2 



Man stands alone in the order and genus to which Naturalists have 

 referred his species. Differing widely in physical conformation from aL 



1 The order Bimana embraces animals with teeth of three kinds ; the posterior extre- 

 mities proper for walking; the anterior furnished with hands ; nails flat; body vertical, 

 two pectoral mamma ; stomach simple ; orbital and temporal fossa? distinct. 



2 Homo sapiens. The genus Homo has four upper and four lower incisor teeth; two 

 upper and two lower canines, one on each side ; molars, five above and five below, on 

 each side. The whole number of his teeth, thirty-two. 



