192 THE HISTORY OF CREATION. 



CHAPTER XX. 



PEDIGREE AND HISTORY OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 

 III. Vertebrate Animals. 



The Records of the Creation of Vertebrate Animals (Comparative Anatomy, 

 Embryology, and Palaeontology) . — The Natural System of Vertebrate 

 Animals. — The Fom- Classes of Vertebrate Animals, according to Lin- 

 naeus and Lamarck. — Their increase to Nine Classes. — Main Class of the 

 Tube-hearted, or Skull-less Animals (the Lancelet) — Blood Relationship 

 between the Skull-less Fish and the Tunicates. — Agreement in the Em. 

 bryological Development of Amphioxus and Ascidiae. — Origin of the 

 Vertebrate Tribe out of the Worm Tribe. — Main Class of Single- 

 nostriled, or Round-mouthed Animals (Hag and Lampreys). — Main 

 Class of Anamnionate Animals, devoid of Amnion. — Pishes (Primaeval 

 Fish, Cartilaginous Fish, Osseous Pish). — Mud.fish, orDipneusta. — Sea 

 Dragons, or Halisauria. — Frogs and Salmanders, or Amphibia (Mailed 

 Amphibia, Naked Amphibia). — Main Class of Amnionate Animals, or 

 Amniota. — Reptiles (Primary Reptiles, Lizards, Serpents, Crocodiles, 

 Tortoises, Flying Reptiles, Dragons, Beaked Reptiles). — Birds (Feather- 

 taUed, Fsln-tailed, Bush-tailed). 



Not one of the natural groups of organisms — which we have 

 designated as tribes, or phyla, on account of the blood- 

 relationship of all the species included in them — is of such 

 great and exceeding importance as the tribe of Vertebrate 

 Animals. For, according to the unanimous opinion of all 

 zoologists, man also is a member of the tribe ; and his whole 

 organization and development cannot possibly be distin- 

 guished from that of other Vertebrate animals. But as from 



