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CLASS XVII. 

 MAMMALS {MAMMA LIAy. 



The mammals are vertebrate, warm-Lloocled animals, breathing 

 by means of lungs; they differ from birds in having a muscular 

 midriff or diaphragm (with Aeistoteles S<a'^w/xa) between the cavity 

 of the thorax and that of the abdomen, and in having glands 



^ A chief work for this class is the natural history of Bdpfon, in which Daubenton 

 has communicated his numerous anatomical observations. The figures that are to be 

 found there will be generally referred to by us. (Ilistoire naturelle. Paris, Iraprimerie 

 royale, Tom. ii — xiv. 1749 — 1767, Supplera. Tomes ill. 1776, vi. 1782, vii. 1789). 



J. C. D. Von Schreber Die SiiugtMere in Ahhilchmgen nach der Natur. Erlangen, 

 1775 — 1846, VII. Thle. 4to. (And Supplementband von J. A. Wagneb, IV. Thle. 

 1840 — 1845.) A work, of which the publication was carried on for 71 years, and 

 which has been continued since 1835 with great diligence and care by Wagneb, and 

 finally is completed. A fifth part of the Supplemental Baud (as a distinct work) was 

 commenced by W. in 1853 and finished in 1855 (Leipzig, T. 0. Weigel). 



Geoffrot St.-Hilairb et F. Cuvier Histolre naturelle des Mammifcres, folio, 

 Paris, r820 — 1835 (60 Livraisons ou 3 vol.); with coloured lithograph plates. In 

 1826 a new and less costly edition in 4to was commenced, estimated to consist also of 

 60 Livr., of which, however, only 22 (132 plates) have been published, and which 

 appears to remain incomplete. 



G. E.. Waterhousb Natiural History of the Mammalia. With engravings. London, 

 Svo. "Vol. I. 1846, Marsupiata, Vol. 11. 1848, Rodentia. (It is to be regretted for the 

 science that this work, as is almost to be feared, will not be completed.) 



C. J. Temminck Monographies de Mammalogie, Tome i. Paris, 1827, Tome II. 

 Leiden, 1835 — 1841. (With many figures, especially of crania.) 

 . F. Cuvier Des Dents des Mammiferes consideres comme caracteres zoologiques. 

 Paris et Strasbourg, 1825, Svo. 



For the anatomy of the Mammals may be consulted : the first part of the Zoologie 

 of F. Tiedemann (already cited under the birds), Landshut, 1808, 8vo, and the com- 

 pressed article Mammalia of Owen in Todd's Cyclopcedia, iii. 1847, PP- '^34 — ■24S' 

 Beautiful figures of skeletons are to be found in the distinguished work of Pander 

 and D'Alton Vergleichende Osteologie, Bonn, 1821 — 1831, in 12 Nos. 



Systematic works are: Synopsis methodica animalium quadrupedum et serpentini 

 generis, auctore Joanne Eaio. Londini, 1693, 8vo ; — J. C. P. Erxleben Sy sterna regni 

 animalis. Classis i. Mammalia, i'j'jj, 8vo; — Prodromus methodi Mammalium, Inaug. 

 Di-sput. Prceside G. C. Storr, respondente J. Wollfer, Tubingse, 1780, 4to; — P 

 BoDDAERT Elenchus Animalium, Vol. I., sistens quadrupedia. Roterodami, 1784, Svo 

 C. Illigeri Prodromus systematis Mammalium et Avium. Berolini, iSii,8vo; — A. G 

 Desmabest Mammalogie {Encycl. method.) Paris, 1820, 4to; — J. B. Fischer Synop 

 sis Mammalium, Stuttgardise, 1829, %yo. {Addenda, Emendenda et Index, ibid. 1S30.) 



