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seven,—Fere, one hundred seventy-six,—Marsupialia, forty-seven, — 
Glires, one hundred forty-nine,—Edentata, twenty-four, —Pachyderma, 
fifty-five, —Ruminantia, ninety-seven, —Cetacea, sixty-two. Of these about 
three hundred and thirty are frugivorous, or herbivorous; eighty omnivo- 
rous © one hundred and fifty, insectivorous, and two hundred and forty, carni- 
vorous, in a greater or lesser degree. The number of terrestrial species 
domesticated by man, (but perhaps including all that are really ~aseful,) 
amount only to thirteen. 

ORDER FIRST—BIMANA.! 
MAN.? 




Man stands alone in the order and genus to which Naturalists have 
eferred his species. Differing widely in physical conformation from al. 

1 The order Bimana embraces animals with teeth of three kinds; the posterior extre- 
nities proper for walking; the anterior furnished with hands ; nails flat; body vertical , 
~vo pectoral mammz ; stomach simple; orbital and temporal fossz distinct. 
* Homo sapiens. The genus Homo has four upper and four lower incisor teeth; two 
pper and two lower canines, one on each side; molers. five above and five below, on 
ach side. The whole number of his teeth, thirty-tvro. 
