Yl CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXI. 

 PEDIGEEE AND HISTORY OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 

 IV. Mammals. * 



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The System of Mammals according to Linnseus and BlainviUe. — Three 

 Sub-classes of Mammals (Ornithodelphia, Didelphia, Monodelphia). 

 — Ornithodelphia, or Monotrema. — Beaked Animals (Ornithostoma). 

 — Didelphia, or Marsupials. — Herbivorous and Carnivorous Marsu- 

 pials. — Monodelphia, or Placentalia (Placental Animals). — Meaning 

 of the Placenta. — Tuft Placentalia. — Girdle Placentalia. — Disc Pla- 

 centalia. — Non-deciduates, or Indeciduata. — Hoofed Animals. — 

 Single and Double-hoofed Animals. — Whales. — Toothless Animals. 

 — Deciduates, or Animals with Decidua. — Semi-apes. — Gnawing 

 Animals. — Pseudo-hoofed Animals. — Insectivora. — Beasts of Prey. 

 —Bats.— Apes 231 



CHAPTER XXII. 



OEIGIN AND PEDIGREE OF MAN. 



The Application of the Theory of Descent to Man. — Its Immense Im- 

 portance and Logical Necessity. — Man's Position in the Natural 

 System of Animals, among Disco-placental Animals. — Incorrect 

 Separation of the Bimana and Quadrumana. — Correct Separation of 

 Semi-apes from Apes. — Man's Position in the Order of Apes. — 

 Narrow-nosed Apes (of the Old World) and Flat-nosed Apes (of 

 America). — Difference of the two Groups. — Origin of Man from 

 Narrow-nosed Apes. — Human Apes, or Anthropoides. — African 

 Human-apes (Gorilla and Chimpanzee). — Asiatic Human-apes 

 (Orang and Gibbon). — Comparison between the different Human 

 Apes and the different Races of Men. — Survey of the Series 

 of the Progenitors of Man. — Invertebrate Progenitors (Prochordata) 

 and Vertebrate Progenitors 263 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



MIGRATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF MANKIND. HUMAN 

 SPECIES AND HUMAN RACES. 



Age of the Human Race.— Causes of its Origin. — The Origin of Human 

 Language.— Monophyletic or Single, Polyphyletic or Multiple 

 Origin of the Human Race. — Derivation of Man from many Pairs. — 

 Classification of the Human Races.— System of Twelve Species of 

 Men.— Woolly-Haired Men, or Ulotrichis. — Bushy-Haired (Papuans, 



