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Clintock's happy family party! 



On we go. "Natural selection" is in full 

 swing. Cats, and leopards, and tigers, and lynxes, 

 were our next phases; wolves, and doggies, and 

 hyaenas our next. We then rose up to the rank 

 of weasel, and rested for a time as bears, badgers, 

 racoons, and gluttons! 



But the subject now warms upon us, hedgehogs, 

 and shrews, and moles form the next group in 

 the upward road of development, and at length 

 we rested proudly triumphant at the last stage 

 but two. We now became vampires and bats! 



Progress for ever! the way from the bat to 

 the lemur is very short, and Mr. Darwin has 

 shewn us how it is to be done. The "Aye, Aye" 

 takes us from the true lemurs to the dear inur- 

 mozet, thence to the American monkey, and now 

 we reach our penultimate phase, we become baboons 

 monkeys proper, and ultimately anthropoid apes! 



And here let us take breath for a moment. 

 I have in the above sketch passed through the 

 fourteen orders into which naturalists have divided 

 the class Mammalia, and eacli animal has been 

 mentioned according to the position which it holds 

 in the scale from structure. I am not myself 

 responsible for this classification. I only say it 

 is one which is held by the best comparative 

 anatomists of the present day, and being funned 

 according to organization, it is the order in which 

 the group must have been developed, if the pro- 

 gressive development theory be true. 



Owen has founded a classification of the main- 



