NOW IN COURSE OF PUBLICATION, 

 In Quarterly Parts, each containing from ^Q to 20 Engravings, price, in Demy 8t?o., 

 \2s.: in Royal 8»o., 18s. ; m Royal %vo., with the Flutes accurately coloured, 24s.; 

 and in Demy 4to., with Proofs on India Paper, 24s. 



Or, in Monthly Numbers, Demy 8uo. 4s. ; Royal Svo. 6s. 



THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, 



DESCRIBED AND ARRANGED IN CONFORMITY WITH ITS ORGANIZATION. 

 By the BARON CUVIER, 



TRANSLATED, WITH LARGE ADDITIONAL DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL 



THE SPECIES HITHERTO NAMED, AND OF MANY NOT BEFORE 



NOTICED, AND WITH OTHER ORIGINAL MATTER. 



By E. GRIFFITH, F.L.S., C. HAMILTON SMITH, and E. PIDGEON. 



The CLASS MAMMALIA, complete in Twelve Part?, with upwards of Two Hundred 

 Engravings, forming five Volumes, price iu extra cloth boards- 

 Demy octavo - - £7 4 

 Royal octavo - - 10 16 

 Ditto coloured - 14 8 

 Demy quarto, India Paper - 14 8 



The thirteenth Part contains an account of the Fossil Mammalia, which, with a subse- 

 quent Part, to be devoted to other Organic Remains, is intended to form a distinct Volume 

 on the Fossil Genera and Species. 



The Class of Birds will occupy about Nine Parts, Five of which are already published ; 

 the Fishes and Insects will form about Eight Parts each ; and the whole, it is computed, 

 will comprise about Forty Parts, It will be so arranged, for the convenience of those who 

 may confine their Zoological studies to either of the Classes, that each Class will make a 

 distinct Work, as well as one of the Series of the " Animal Kingdom." The Conclusion 

 will contain a Tabular View of the System, a copious Index, and a general Terminology 

 of the Science. 



After a long period of comparative neglect, the science of Zoology has begun, within a 

 few years, to occupy that degree of attention among the educated of this country, to which 

 its interest and importance so eminently entitle it. The culpable apathy so long evinced 

 respecting the most wonderful works of Nature seems to be removed. Every department 

 of the Animated World has been illustrated by the most distinguished writers : new insti- 

 tutions have been established to promote and facilitate such researches, and an added 

 impetus has been communicated to the exertions of the old. 



In such a state of things, a Work embracing all the latest improvements of classification, 

 and of the most recent discoveries in Zoology, united with all that is interesting and 

 amusing in the natural history of animals, was confessedly a desideratum. To supply this 

 has been the object of the Proprietors in originating the publication of "The Animal 

 Kingdom." 



The name of CnviEn has for many years stood at the head of the list of living natu- 

 ralists. He holds the same station in the present age that Linnaeus held in the last ; and 

 lie has acted a similarly efficient part in accelerating the march of science. The "Regnk 

 Animal" of this illustrious writer constitutes, therefore, a proper basis for the English 

 Animal Kingdom, and au important portion of the latter work consists of a faithful 

 translation of the former. 



