APPENDIX. r 



The other phalanges and orders have no other subdivisions 

 than into genera, and are, under other names and with some rec- 

 tifications, except the Pinnipeda, the same as the orders of Lin- 

 naeus. The tables of Storr, copies of which are herewith given, 

 will convey all necessary information respecting their contents. 



The analysis of this classification will show that Storr erred to 

 a, greater extent than Linnseus had done in proceeding from the 

 basis that because modifications had certain evident relations to 

 the economy of the animal, they were therefore, and to the de- 

 gree of their physiological influence, of importance in determining 

 the affinities of those animals. As we will soon see, however, he 

 greatly improved upon the genera of the systema mamraalium 

 by their limitation to species naturally and more closely allied. 



Proceeding as the author thus did from a physiological basis, 

 the major groups proposed by him cannot be compared strictly 

 witli those at present recognized by naturalists, but, so far as 

 regards the subordination of recognized categories, the following 

 names are as nearly synonymic as the nature of the facts will 

 allow. For it must be further remembered that the term "genus" 

 has undergone successive restrictions till now it corresponds with 

 no named section of the older writei'S, their genera being rather 

 equivalent — among the mammals at least — with the families' o^ 

 the moderns. With such qualifications, these are the approximate 

 equivalents, viz : — 



1. Agmen. 



2. Acies. 



3. Class. 



4. Phalanx. 



5. Cohors. 



6. Oido. 



7. Missus. 



8. Sectio. 



9. Coetug. 

 10. Genus. 



Although the new genera were not characterized in distinctive 

 diagnoses, many of the most familiar were first recognized and 

 introduced into the system by our author. These were, however, 

 only enumerated, along with the old genera, as the final divisions 

 of the including groups, and all that was said respecting them 

 was placed in the form of foot-notes. These foot-notes are here 



opa abbreviatorum his aniraalibiis ad perreptanda quseque locorura claus- 

 tra pluriraum obtigerit aptitudiuis, verrninei generis iiomen positura olim 

 fuit. Tria in hac seotioue distinguuntur, Viverrae, Mustelae, Lutrae genera; 

 Plura etiara deposcere videtui* specierura adhuc cognitarum multiplex, 

 nee tamea satis extricata, nee esbausta varietas. 



