CXXi1yv ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 
number, it may appear of little consequence which is adopted. Even 
if they were more numerous, it would probably be difficult to assign 
any sufficient reason why the vegetable kingdom should take prece- 
dence of the animal, or vice versé—why the Mammalia should stand 
at the top of a zoological list or at the bottom ; but the question does 
not refer to dignity ; ; it refers to orderly distribution and regularity 
of procedure, and it is only with a view to method and consistency 
that the Committee invite a decision of the Council on points in all 
other respects immaterial. It seems necessary to good government 
in a museum, that questions which cannot be determined by reason 
should be determined by authority. 
It is stated in the Museum Report of 1830, that the vertebrated 
animals are classed according to the system of Cuvier—the imverte- 
brated according to Lamarck ; and if by those words the Committee 
are allowed to understand the latest editions of the works of these 
authors, they see no reason why that classification should be super- 
seded. 
Your Committee are of opinion, that for practical purposes the most 
convenient order of sequence for the several classes of organized beings 
is that which, derived from the sources above specified, will be found 
prefixed to Mr. Morris’s Catalogue of British Fossils, and they ac- 
cordingly recommend this to the sanction of the Council. In the 
subjoined list exhibiting this order of sequence, the Committee have 
ventured to annex to the name of each zoological division the name 
of the author or authors whose writings, in reference to those divisions 
respectively, are in their estimation worthy of bemg consulted. 
cB Tamara bee el ah Adolphe Brongniart ; Unger ; Goppert ; 
Count Sternberg, continued by Presl ; 
Lindley and Hutton. 
AU SUSOTU «sxe x one oe Ehrenberg. 
Amorphozoa........ Lonsdale ; Lamarck (2nd edit.). 
ZOOPRYU ee = ee Milne-Edwards; Michelin; Ehrenberg 
(Berlin Transactions). 
re eal Nise eae cee Prof. Forbes; Austin; 
Echinide.......... se ei 
Tneerte sedis... = 6 
Foraminifera ....... D’Orbigny. 
UOTE 31, EO ap Burmeister (Ray Society). 
eee re Lamarck (2nd edit.) ; Darwin (book in 
preparation). 
TOSCCH a Os on = op, SR Se Insects of Secondary 
Rocks). 
CHISCICCD, oe sas ane Burmeister ; Bell ; Milne-Edwards. 
Conchifera dimyaria .. Deshayes (Cyclopzedia) ; Lamarck (2nd 
edit. 
monomyaria. James D.C: Sowerby ; Lamarck (2nd 
edit.). 
VS eek ARIA D’Orbigny ; Desmoutins. 
Brachiopada .... . . « Lamarck. 
