TABLE OE CONTENTS. 



PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, 

 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION, 

 INTRODUCTION, 

 Of Natural History, and of Systems gene- 

 rally, ..... 

 Of living Beings, and of Organization in 

 general, .... 



Division of Organized Beings into Animal 



and Vegetable, 

 Of the Forms peculiar to the Organic Ele- 

 ments 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 Functions and Organs 

 of the Bodies of Animals, and of their 

 various degrees of complication, 

 Of the Intellectual Functions of Animals, 

 Of Method, as applied to the Animal King- 

 dom, ..... 

 General Distribution of the Animal King- 

 dom into four great Divisions — Vertebrate 

 Animals, Molluscous Animals, Articulate 

 Animals, Radiate Animals, 

 VERTEBRATE ANIMALS, 

 Subdivision into foinr Classes, 

 MAMMALIA, . 

 Division into Orders, 

 BiMANA, or Man, 



Peculiar Conformation of Man, 

 Physical and Moral Development of 



Man, 

 Varieties of the Human Species, 



QUADRUMANA, 



Monkey-like Animals, , 



Monkeys of America, 

 Caknaria, 



Cheiroptera, 



Insectivora, 



Camivora, 

 Marsupiata, 

 rodentia, 

 Edentata, 



Ordinary Edent:itn, 



Monotremata, 



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Pachydermata, . 



Proboscidea, 



Ordinary Pachydermata, 



Solidungula, 



RUMINANTIA, 



Without horns, 



With horns, 

 Cetacea, . . 



Herbivora, 



Ordinaria, 

 Analogies of the Teeth of Mam 



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OVIPAROUS VERTEBRATES IN GENE 

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aves, 



Di\^9ion into Orders, 

 Accipitkes, 



Diurnal Birds of Prey, 



Nocturnal Birds of Prey, 

 Passerin/E, 



Dentirostres, 



Fissirostres, 



Conirostres, 



Tenuirostres, 



Syndactyli, 

 Scansores, 

 Affinities of The Three preceding 



Orders, 

 Gallin.e, 

 Grall^e, 



Brevipennes, 



Pressirostres, 



Cultrirostres, 



Longircstres, 



Macrodactyli, 

 Palmipedes, 



Brachypteres, 



Longipennes, 



Totipalniati, 



Lameliirostres, 

 REPTILIA, 

 Chelonia, 

 Sauria, 



The Crocodiles, . 



The Lizards, 



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