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this table of affinities, however confused it may appear, 

 or subramose, as it is termed, coincides with the tabular 

 view which I have laid before the public.* We have only 

 to join the Radiata to the Cirripeda, and the Annalides 

 to fishes, and Lamarck's table of affinities, with scarcely 

 any alteration, becomes precisely the same as mine." It 

 is therefore clear, that the first perception of that cir- 

 cular series of affinity which pervades the animal king- 

 dom was gained by Lamarck in the year 1815. But this 

 was done without the least suspicion arising, on his part, 

 that the circularity of natural groups was the first prin- 

 ciple of natural arrangement. His studies, in fact, did 

 riot extend to vertebrated animals ; but he had an in- 

 tuitive perception of natural affinities ; and by follow- 

 ing these he traced the natural series, without, however, 

 perceiving that it assumed the disposition of a circle, 

 which the vertebrated animals would render complete. 

 That this fact may be more apparent to our readers, and 

 that we may justify our opinion that the system of this 

 able but fanciful zoologist was eminently natural, we 

 here subjoin the table in question : 



Series of Inarticulated Animals. Series of Articulated Animals. 



Infusoria. 



Polypi. Vermes. 



" ' Radiata. Anneli 



Tunicata. Radiata. Annelides. Epizoaria. 



Acephala. Insecta 



Crustacea. Arachnid*. 



Mollusca. 



Cirripeda. 



Pisces. 

 Reptilia. 

 Aves. 

 Mammalia. 



(256.) Lamarck is chiefly known in this country by his 

 admirable arrangement of the testaceous mollusca or shells, 

 a department in which he created so great a reformation 



* Hor. Ent p. 213. 



