APPENDIX 



THE following tables endeavour to show in as simple 

 a form as possible how the animals mentioned in the 

 preceding pages are classified scientifically. 



In order to systematize the study of natural history, 

 and to demonstrate clearly the exact relationship of 

 different types of animals one to another, it was long 

 since found necessary to use for them other terms than 

 those in daily use. Colloquial names are more or less 

 of a haphazard character, and serve in no way to indicate 

 the places which the subjects of them occupy in the 

 animal kingdom. Further, the same animal is known 

 under a totally different name in each country according 

 to the, language there spoken ; indeed, it often possesses 

 more than one name within the same country. Accordingly 

 it was necessary to adopt for purposes of nomenclature 

 some language common to all civilized nations. Although 

 what is termed a " dead " tongue, Latin is yet essentially 

 cosmopolitan, and also from its construction is by far 

 the most suitable for purposes of classification. Therefore 

 at the present day every known animal, down to the 

 smallest insect, has had a Latin generic and specific name 

 allotted to it, and takes its place amongst its own family 

 in the proper division of its order. Under such a system, 

 naturalists of all nations can use identical terms for any 

 animals to which they may wish to allude, and there 

 is no confusion. 



Although the list of the carnivorous mammals which 

 follows embraces some types not found in South Africa, 

 I have, in dealing with the Primates, confined myself 



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