THE 



ANIMAL KINGDOM 



ARRANGED ACCORDING TO ITS ORGANIZATION, 



SERVING AS A 



FOUNDATION FOR THE 



NATURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS, 



AND AN 



INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. 



BARON CUVIER, 



Great Officer of Uie Legion of llnnour, Counsellor of Slate, and Member of the Royal Council of Public Instruction ; 



One of the Forty of the French Academy ; Perpetual Secretary to the Academy of Sciences; Member 



of the Academies and Royal Societies of London, Berlin, Petersburgh, Stockholm, Turin, 



Edinburgh, Copenhagen, Gottingen, Bavaria, Modena, the Netherlands, 



and Calcutta ; and of the Linnasan Society of London, &c. &c. 



WITH FIGURES DESIGNED AFTER NATURE: 



THE 



M. LATREILLE, 



Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Member of the Institute (Royal Acaderary of Sciences), and of the greater 

 portion of other learned Societies in Europe, America, &c. 



STransIatsU from ti^e latest JFrentl^ "EDition. 



WITH 



ADDITIONAL NOTES, 



AND 



ILLUSTRATED BY NEARLY 500 ADDITIONAL PLATES. 



IN FOUR VOLUMES. 

 VOL. I. 



LONDON: 

 G. HENDERSON, 2, OLD BAILEY, LUDGATE-HILL, 



AND SOLD RY ALL I500KSELLERS. 



1834. 



