304 Proposal for the Estatlisknieni of 



will not act on grain, have soft membranous stomachs. 

 The teeth and stomachs of mankind are suited to the masti- 

 cation and digestion both of animal and vegetable food. 



Skeletons or preserved specimens of parts should be in- 

 troduced virhercver ihey are requisite to illustrate peculiar 

 organization. 



CLASS I. MAMMALIA, 



According to the Linnaean arrangement, includes all animals 

 that suckle their young j which also correspond in other 

 respects j in the heart, which has two ventricles and two 

 auricles; and in the blood, which is red and warm. They 

 are likewise all viviparous. 



DIVISION I. Digitated or Clawed, 

 Order I. Primates. Fore teeth four. Canine single. 

 Relations to sustenance, well-being, &c. 



GENERA. 



Mafi. 



Jlpe. Relation to man. " Notwithstanding the great 



similarity between the form and organization of 

 the Ourafi-Outang — 'though he has the same or- 

 gans of speech, he never attempts to articulate. 

 The figure and proportion of his brain likewise 

 are the same ; but he discovers no extent of 

 thought. There cannot, M. Buffon properly re- 

 marks, be a more evident proof that matter alone, 

 though perfectly organized, can produce neither 

 language nor extensive thinking, unless it be ani- 

 mated by minds superior to those of brutes, Ouran- 

 Outangs imitate almost all human actions except 

 speech." — Smellie, Phil, of Nat. Hist. vol. ii. 

 p. 423. 



Macauco. 



Bat. Relation of conservation. If the bat did not 



sleep during the winter it must starve, as the in- 

 sects upon which it feeds disappear. — Paley and 

 .Smellie. 



Relation 



