PART I. 



Typical Stages in the History of the Ordinal 

 Classification of Mammals. 



Contents. 



Page 



Preface 3 



Part I. Typical Stages in tlie History of the Ordinal Classification of the 



Mammals 5 



I. The Prescientific Period g 



Two examples of early classifications 7 



II. The Grseco-Scholastic Period 9 



1. The Aristotelian Epoch 9 



2. The Scholastic Epoch ■ 12 



III. The Modern Period 13 



1. The Renaissance Epoch I3 



Conrad Gesner, work of 1551-58 14 



Wotton, work of 1552 I4 



Ciesalpinus, work of 1583 .... 15 



2. The Raian Epoch jg 



Ray, work of 1693 I7 



3. The Linnsean Epoch 23 



Linna>us, early editions of the ' Systema Nature' (1735-1748) . . 23 



Klein, work of 1751 24 



Linnaeus, the 10th and 12th editions of the 'Systema Natm-ffi ' (1758, 



1766) 27 



Scopoli, work of 1777 3g 



Erxleben, work of 1777 37 



4. The pre-Cuvierian Epoch 3g 



Perrault, work of 1731 39 



Buffon and Daubenton, work of 1753-1767 40 



Brisson, work of 1756 and 1762 41 



Bkmienbach, work of 1779 43 



Storr, work of 1780 4g 



Pennant, work of 1781 50 



Boddaert, work of 1784 52 



Blumenbach, work of 1791 52 



Vicq d'Azyr, work of 1792 53 



5. The Epoch of Cuvier and deBlainville 55 



E. Geoffroy Saint Hilaire and G. Cuvier, work of 1795 56 



