THE 



ANIMAL KINGDOM, 



ARRANGED ACCORDING TO ITS ORGANIZATION, 



SERVING AS A 



FOUNDATION FOR THE 



NATURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS, 



INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. 



BARON CUVIER, 



(Jieal Officer of Ihe Legion of Honour, Counsellor of State, and Member of the Royal Council of Public 



Instruction; One of the Forty of the French Academy ; Perpetual Secretary to the Academy of 



Sciences ; Member of the Academies and Royal Societies of London, Berlin, Petersburg!!, 



Stockholm, Turin, Kdiuburgh, Copenhagen, Gottingen, Bavaria, Modena the 



Netherlands, and Calcutta; and of the Linnsean Society of London. 



WITH FIGURES DESIGNED FROM NATURE : 



THE 

 BY 



M. LATREILLE, 



Chevalier of the Legion oi Honour, Member of the Institute, (Royal Academy of Sciences! , and of the ^renter 

 portion ol other learned Sock-ties in Europe and America- 



ErmSXatttf from ttjc latent dfrenri) CBtrttt0ii. 



WITH 



ADDITIONAL NOTES, 



AND 



ILLUSTRATED BY NEARLY 500 ADDITIONAL NOTES. 



IN FOUR VOLUMES. 



VOL. IT. 



LONDON. 



G. HENDERSON, 2, OLD BAILEY, LUDGATE-HILL, 



AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. 



