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mists have assigned to 
even in the Capybara, in which there are a few shallow anfractuosities, the ogre 
e 
182 Prof. Owen on the Class Mammalia. 
—* intelligence predominating over blind instinct—which 
are associated with the higher development of the brain, the 
Gyrencephala ‘afford 
those species which 5.—Negro. 
have ever formed the . =< 
most cherished com- 
strongly marked than 
that by which the pre- 
ceding subclass was 
distinguished from the 
ot 
terior development is 
so marked, that anato- 
that part the peg 
ter of a third lobe; 
- as to the a 
0, and equally sae is the ‘ posterior horn of the 
lateral wetticls, and the ‘hi vines minor,’ which chara 
ian ~ the systen m of Classification propore in the pr resent paper, 
I — lahtelions of the brain of the Mids $, Aj” extend, of nae 
of t umana, over the er part of the cerebellum (C),” (Phi 
he n 
1837, p. ai, it resembles, in short, the brain of the Human embryo before 
rebral surface begins to be folded; whereas in the Jnseclivora, In 
hemispheres leave Ne cerebellum quite exposec 
With regard to t e alleged contrast betwe een the brains of the Ro 
and the Civet Cat, leaves me entirely unable to appreciate the force of — 
. The third argument a - high position of the ge Cheiroptera 
tivora in the Mammalian scale, is deduced from some particulars of their 
