SYSTEMATIC INDEX. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Of natural history . 



Of living beings and orga- 

 nisation in general 



Division of organised beings 

 into animals and vege- 

 tables . 



Of the forms peculiar to the 

 organic elements of the 

 animal body, and of the 

 principal combinations of 

 its chemical elements 



Of the forces which act in 

 the animal body . 



Summary idea of the func- 

 tions and organs of the 

 bodies of animals, and of 

 their various degrees of 

 complication 



Of the intellectual func- 

 tions of animals . 



Of method, as applied to 

 the animal kingdom 



Distribution of the animal 

 kingdom into four great 

 divisions 



OF THE VERTEBRATA 

 IN GENERAL . 



Subdivision of the Verte- 

 brata into four classes . 

 MAMMALIA 



Orders of the Mammalia . 

 BIMANA . . 



Man . 

 Peculiar conformation of 



Man 



Physical and moral de- 

 velopment of Man 

 Varieties of the human 

 species . . 



QUADRUMANA 



Simia . . . 



Simia proper 



Pithecus 

 Hilobates 

 Cercopithecus 

 Semnopithecus 

 Macacus 

 Inuus 



