Vl CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER XXI. 
PeVIGREE AND HISTORY OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 
IV. Mammats. 
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The System of Mammals according to Linnzus and Blainville-—Three 
Sub-classes of Mammals (Ornithodelphia, Didelphia, Monodelphia). 
—Ornithodelphia, or Monotrema.—Beaked Animals (Ornithostoma). 
—Didelphia, or Marsupials.—Herbivorous and Carnivorous Marsu- 
pials.—Monodelphia, or Placentalia (Placental Animals).—Meaning 
of the Placenta.—Tuft Placentalia.—Girdle Placentalia.—Dise Pla- 
centalia.—Non-deciduates, or Indeciduata.—Hoofed Animals.— 
Single and Double-hoofed Animals.—Whales.—Toothless Animals. 
—Deciduates, or Animals with Decidua.—Semi-apes.—Gnawing 
Animals.—Pseudo-hoofed Animals.—Insectivora.—Beasts of Prey. 
—Bats.—Apes eee eee ooo eos eee eae eee eos 2al 
CHAPTER XXII. 
ORIGIN AND PEDIGREE OF MAN. 
The Application of the Theory of Descent to Man.—Its Immense Im- 
portance and Logical Necessity—Man’s Position in the Natural 
System of Animals, among Disco-placental Animals.—Incorrect 
Separation of the Bimana and Quadrumana.—Correct Separation of 
Semi-apes from Apes.—Man’s Position in the Order of Apes.— 
Narrow-nosed Apes (of the Old World) and Flat-nosed Apes (of 
America).—Difference of the two Groups.—Origin of Man from 
Narrow-nosed Apes.—Human Apes, or Anthropoides.—African 
Human-apes (Gorilla and Chimpanzee).—Asiatic Human-apes 
(Orang and Gibbon).—Comparison between the different Human 
Apes and the different Races of Men.—Survey of the Series 
of the Progenitors of Man.—Invertebrate Progenitors (Prochordata) 
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CHAPTER XXIII. 
MIGRATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF MANKIND. HUMAN 
SPECIES AND HUMAN RACES. 
Age of the Human Race.—Causes of its Origin.—The Origin of Human 
Language.—Monophyletic or Single, Polyphyletic or Multiple 
Origin of the Human Race.—Derivation of Man from many Pairs.— 
Classification of the Human Races.—System of Twelve Species of 
Men.—Woolly-Haired Men, or Ulotrichis.—Bushy-Haired (Papuans, 
