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(lid not yive distinctive names for the groups wbicli he proposed, wliicli 

 were very iutificial. 



Brongniart published bis sj^stem iu 1800-03, in the Memoires des 

 Savaus Etrangers de I'lnstitut. He did not distinguish the -Batrachia 

 as a class from the Eeptilia, but he distinguished it first as a natural 

 group and named it. He divided the Eeptilia into the four orders, Cbe- 

 lonia, Sauria, Ophidia, and Batrachia. He placed the salamanders iu 

 the Batrachia for the first time. 



Latreille published a system of Eeptilia in the Nouveau Dictionaire 

 d' Uistoire Naturelle in 1804, Vo>. xxiv, page 61. He adopts the sys- 

 tem of Brongniart. The Batrachia are divided into two sections: I 

 B. coureurs, and II B.piscifortnes. The second section included the gen- 

 era Proteus arid Siren ; section I, all other Batrachia known to the 

 author. In 1825 Latreille published another classification in the bro- 

 chure '' Ives Families JSTaturelles du Hegne Animal." He divides the 

 vertebrata into warm-blooded (Haemathermes) and cold-blooded (Hae- 

 macrymes). The latter include Pulmonees and Solibranches. The lat- 

 ter includes the fishes. The former division has two subdivisions, Kej) 

 tiles and Amphibia or Batrachia. We here find the system of De 

 Blaiuville adopted in the recognition of the Batrachia as distinct from 

 the Eeptilia, and the name Amphibia is used for it for the first time. 



Daudin in lS02-'03 published his Traits Generale. He adopted the 

 classification of Brongniart. 



IJumeril, in 1801, in the Traite elementaire d'histoire uaturelle, also 

 adopted the system of Brongniart. He placed the Cueciliidte among 

 the 0[)hidia. InhisZoologie Analytique, published in 1807, he followed 

 ihe same arrangement, and divided the Batrachia into Anura and Uro- 

 dela. The latter included four genera: Triton, Salaraandra, Proteus, 

 and Siren. 



Lamarcl', in 1809, published a Distribution Generale des Animaux, as 

 (he chapter viiE of the Philosophic Zoologique. He did not distinguish 

 the Batrachia from the Eeptilia as a class, bat recognized the four 

 orders of Eeptilia already proposed by Brongniart. The Batrachia are 

 divided into two divisions : Urodela and Anura. (Joecilia is placed in 

 the serpents. 



Cuvier, in the Le§ons dAnatomie Comparee, in 1800, and in the 

 Eegne Animal, in 1817, adopted the system of Brongniart. In the 

 second edition of the latter, published in 1829, he divides the Batrachia 

 into five genera, viz : Coecilia, Eana, Salamandra, Proteus, au«l Siren. 



Op2)cl published his " Ordnungen Familien u. Gattungen der Eep- 

 tilien" in 1811 (Munich). He adopts the class name Eeptilia, and 

 divides it into three orders : Testudinata, Squamata (snakes and lizards), 

 and Xuda or Batrachia. The Batrachia are divided into three families = 

 the Apoda (Coeciliidte), Ecaudata or Anura, and the Urodela. 



I)e BlainvUle published in 1810 in the Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences 

 de la Societe Philomathiquo of Paris a Prodrome d'une nouv. distribu- 

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