

ANALYTICAL TABLE OK CONTENTS 



INTRODUCTION. 



CHAPTER I. 



OP THE NATURE OP LIVING BODIES AND THE DISTINCTION 

 BETWEEN ANIMALS AND VEGETABLES* 



Common division of natural objects into the mineral, vegetable, and animal 



kingdoms not perfectly accurate 1 2 



Division into those possessed of life and those not possessed of life 2 



Distinctions between these two 26 



Distinction between animals and vegetables 6 12 



CHAPTER II. 



GENERAL REMARKS ON THE STRUCTURE OF VEGETABLES. 



Great simplicity and uniformity in the structure of plants 12 13 



Circulation of the sap in annual plants 13 



Differences in the circulation in plants of larger growth and trees, and the * 



formation of the bark and wood 1314 



Object of this arrangement 14 



Of the other functions of vegetables 1415 



CHAPTER III. 



OP THE STRUCTURE OF ANIMALS. 



SECT. I. General Classification of Animals. 



Necessity of some system of arrangement 1516 



Two grand divisions of animals, Vertebral and Invertebral 17 



Vertebral division subdivided into warm-blooded and cold-blooded 17 



Warm-blooded vertebral animals, two classes, Mammalia and Birds 17 



Cold-blooded vertebral animals, two classes, Reptiles and Fishes 17 



Invertebral divisions subdivided into five classes, Insects, Crustacea, Mol- 



lusca, Vermes or Worms, Zoophytes 18 



Objects and nature of the divisions into orders, genera, and species 1819 



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