160 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



mily, on account of the paucity of information in the 

 English language on the subject, than our allotted space 

 will allow for the numerous other branches of the animal 

 kingdom, which we hope will be considered not merely 

 as venial, but as acceptable. It is principally from the 

 works of M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, whose name so often 

 occurs in these pages, that the substance of our essay has 

 been extracted. 



