382 HISTORY OF ZOOLOGY. 



Yet it is on no other ground than this enumera- 

 tion, so far as I can discover, that Aristotle's " Sys- 

 tem" has been so decidedly spoken of 4 , and exhibited 

 in the most formal tabular shape. The authors of 

 this Sy sterna Aristotelicum, have selected, I pre- 

 sume, the following passages from the work On 

 Animals, as they might have selected any other; 

 and by arranging them according to a subordination 

 unknown to Aristotle himself, have made for him a 

 scheme which undoubtedly bears a great resem- 

 blance to the most complete systems of modern times. 



Book I, chap. v. " Some animals are viviparous, 

 some oviparous, some vermiparous. The viviparous 

 are such as man, and the horse, and all those ani- 

 mals which have hair ; and of aquatic animals, the 

 whale kind, as the dolphin and cartilaginous fishes." 



Book II, chap. vii. " Of quadrupeds which have 

 blood and are viviparous, some are (as to their ex- 

 tremities,) many-cloven, as the hands and feet of 

 man. For some are many-toed, as the lion, the dog, 

 the panther ; some are bifid, and have hoofs instead 

 of nails, as the sheep, the goat, the elephant, the 

 hippopotamus ; and some have undivided feet, as the 

 solid-hoofed animals, the horse and ass. The swine 

 kind share both characters." 



Chap. ii. " Animals have also great differences 

 in the teeth, both when compared with each other 

 and with man. For all quadrupeds which have 

 blood and are viviparous, have teeth. And in the 



4 Linncean Transactions, vol. xvi. p. 24. 



