WORKS UPON QUADRUPEDS. S57 
our native quadrupeds, is a wide and much-neglected 
field for interesting observation, carrying with it a 
degree of popular information, which interests both the 
man of science and the general reader. 
(440.) There is no work in our language on the na- 
tural arrangement of quadrupeds ; and all those which 
are intended to describe the species, are expensive. The 
best arrangement you can at present follow is that of 
Cuvier’s “‘ Animal Kingdom.” Keep it as a book 
of reference ; as such it is invaluable: but, if you 
wish to follow up the views exhibited in this volume, 
the less you burthen your memory with the details 
of the arrangement in the ‘“‘ Regne Animal,” the better. 
Q@uadrupeds may probably form the next volume of 
this series: but, if you are in a hurry, procure Cuvier ; 
for to him I shall very frequently refer. As for spe- 
cies, I am really unprepared to say which of the many 
cheap compilations now publishing is the best. Be- 
wick’s quadrupeds, however, is a standard book, not- 
withstanding its obsolete names and occasional errors. 
Lesson’s ‘‘ Manuel,” in French, is useful; but Desmarest 
much better. Of works with coloured figures, several 
have been published on the Continent, particularly in 
France ; but they are, of course, partial in their range, 
and very expensive. One of these, by Professor Tem- 
minck *, however, is within a moderate sum, and is ab- 
solutely essential to every one who studies mammalogy. 
You will perceive that upon the teeth of quadrupeds 
most of the modern arrangements are founded ; and as 
the different forms of these organs are often very difficult 
to be expressed by words, yet may be rendered imme- 
diately intelligible by figures, I should recommend your 
procuring the valuable octavo volume of Frederick 
Cuvier, brother to the great anatomist, where you will 
find nearly all the modern genera illustrated by ad- 
mirable plates of their teeth, exhibited in different posi- 
«x Temminck, Monographes de Mammalogie, ou Descriptions de quel- 
ques Genres de Mammiféres dont les Spécies ont été observés dans les 
différens Musées de l’Europe. 1 vol, 4to, in seven numbers. 
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