ZOOLOGY. 



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A. DIVISION INTO PROVINCES. 



3100. The animal body divides first of all into the 

 vegetative and animal. There will therefore be animals 

 in which the former, and others in which the latter, 

 systems predominate. The kingdom consequently sepa- 

 rates into a vegetative and into an animal province. The 

 vegetative parts are all tegumental developments, and 

 thus the creatures in whom they prevail are Splanchnic or 

 Visceral animals, but the animal parts are developments 

 of the flesh, and constitute the Sarcose animals. 



First Province. Splanchnozoa. 



3101. Unto the Splanchnic or Tegumental animals 

 are wanting bones, muscles with the nerves belonging to 

 them, and thus the neural axis or encephalon ; they are 

 consequently devoid of bone, muscle, and brain, being in 

 a word asarcose or Jleshless animals. 



The tegument is, however, the general organ of sen- 

 sation or feeling ; they are thus Sensitive animals. 



3102. In them, developments only of the sense of 

 feeling can occur, such as sensitive papillae, tentacula, 

 feet, and wings. All the remaining organs of sense can 

 only be exhibited as rudiments of a very feeble or stunted 

 character. They do not possess a true tongue, nose, ears, 

 and eyes, i e. constructed after the type of these organs 

 in Man. The eyes only, from their being the sense of 

 the animal system proper, can assume a definite kind of 

 development. 



3103. But, these organs of sense are the sensorial 



