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G. Cuvier, work of 1798 59 



Lacepede, work of 1799 60 



G. Cuvier, work of 1800 63 



Cnvier as the Founder of Vertebrate Pateontology, 1796-1836 . . 67 



Dumeril, work of 1806 67 



lUiger, work of 181 1 68 



The " Philosophical Zoologists," cirra 1783-1847 71 



De Blainville, work of 1816 74 



G. Cuvier, work of 1817 78 



Gray, work of 1821, 1843 etc 81 



Blumenbach, work of 1830 81 



De Blainville, work of 1834 82 



Bonaparte, work of 1837 84 



De Blainville, work of 1839-1864 85 



Wagner, work of 1855 86 



6. The Epoch of Darwin and Huxley 87 



General progress of the ordinal classification of the Mammalia since 



1859 88 



Owen, work of 1868 89 



Gill, work of 1870, 1872 91 



Huxley, work of 1872 93 



Huxley, work of 1880 94 



Flower, work of 1883 96 



Cope, work of 1891, 1898 98 



Weber, work of 1904 99 



Addenda 102 



Appendix A. Diagram illustrating the History and Multiple Ancestry of 



Modern Mammalogy 103 



Appendix B. Tabular analysis of the present content of Mammalogy . . -. 104 



I. The Prescientific Period. 



Synopsis. 



During this period knowledge of animals was incidental or solely of the 

 practical order, they being regarded from the following viewpoints : 



As objects of the cJiase (cf. much of Palaeolithic art and of primitive art 



generally), or 

 As flocks and herds or beasts of burden or guardians of property or pets 



{cf., much art and literature of all nations). 

 In connection with religion: 

 a. In fetishism and totemism. 



h. In zootheism {cf. certain palaeolithic and neolithic art, much 

 Assyrian and Eg^'jDtian art, Eg^-j^tian interest in and care of animals, 

 mummification, etc.). 



