^ANIMAL KINGDOM. " SiSl 



surprising ; "but pei-haps' oil further reflection we shall 

 cease to~ think this anomatous, and may in some measure 

 'eVeii expect that the vital poXvers of these beings ought to 

 be influenced by the circumstance that Nature in them is 

 leaving one plan of construction m oi'der to adopt another 

 %hich islotEtliycliflWdttt; ''^' ^'"7' .-o. ,....,.-.> . ......... 



' ■ M S'avighy dividesthfe MnfeliSes into Bve bV'fiers-^' tKf^, 

 ^^? which are furnished with setiform appendages, the othel' 

 twb being vVlthout theih. ^Of these orders the Nererdk 



treilfe's bplfiibnf^^nly io^ Ibie Conipa'red'^tci the rudimentary 

 "^delli visil)1e m'(^ter|>ilErs"artd olher larvae of insects;""' 

 "' SwainmSrdMJi^BaTrrefierJ and many of the earlier Z08- 

 Togists wer^'^b'^itrtick with the^ resemblance which somie 

 'Anneliiiss,'iuMi:S5 the Nereidk, bear to the Myriapdd 

 j4rtnM/osa at't^ harne' ilieni Scolopendns marince or 5Vlr« 

 Centipedes i and iVl.deBlainVillehk^ considered this affinity 

 'to'bfe ttf such a degree natural that \nh\s TaBleaiiiAym!'^- 

 tiqiie des Aminaux he prates'^id Setipod ^tijJie/Zife.rimine- 

 diately after ifie Hf^rra'ptdu. ' Eihriseus even, by niaBn^ffie 

 StoBpendree and J?/?Hhe'last of his insects, and ^vihg 

 them a ^tuation immediately before Vermes, seems to have 

 had" a vague idea of the same' connexion. The last a«d 

 ° in my opinion the niost tena^fle conclulron to which Mr Ea- 

 'rtrciile arrives in his repiirtr~6n-^§ngiiy*s classific^^ 

 ' W the Anneiides is rirorebV&'W-felbwIV -*<ic cdrj^i?es 

 i.'i^nfielides appendktes,-Qomi4^hsous le rapport 4?, l(i,-^.js- 

 "itribution et du nombre de^ *es segrmns, sous 'celui enmre 

 des appendices qui leur sont annexes, soiivent alissi qiiant 



