NOTES AMJ3 



2. Simla. 



3. Lemur. 



4. Vespertilio. Turton's Translation, vol. I. 

 Several new systems have been formed, the most esteemed of which are those 



of Blumenbach and Cuvier.* 



Blumenbach's is as follows : 



There are two grand divisions of animals ; those which have a vertebral col- 

 umn and red blood and those which have no vertebrae and are white blooded. 



He subdivides vertebral animals into the warm and cold blooded, and makes 

 two classes of warm blooded animals : 



1. Mammalia. 



2. Birds. 



And he distributes the class mammalia into six orders ': 



1. Bimanum ; two handed animals. 



2. Quadrumana ; four handed animals. 



3. Brady poda ; slow moving animals. 



4. Cheiroptera ; having the fingers elongated for the expansion of a menc- 

 brane, which acts as a wing. 



5. Glires ; gnawing animals. 



6. Ferae ; predaceous and carnivorous animals. 



For all the outlines see the Introduction to Blumenbach's Short System of 

 Comparative Anatomy, by William Lawrence. 



Cuvier, also, divides the animal kingdom into two great families ; 1. Animals 

 which have vertebrae and red blood ; 2. Animals without vertebrae, almost aH 

 of which have white blood. 



He subdivides vertebral animals into two branches ; those with warm blood 

 tod those with cold blood. 



Each of these two branches is divided into two classes. Those of the animals 

 With warm blood are, 



1. Mammalia. 



2. Bird*. 



The classes of vertebral animals with cold blood are, 



1. Reptiles. 



2. Fishes. 



The invertebral animals ought to be divided into five classes 



1. Mollusca. 



2. Crustacea. 



3. Insects. 



4. Terrestrial worms and. Ieec!ies>- 



5. Zoophyte 



