98 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 



He distributes the class mammalia into seven orders : 



1. Primates. 



2. Bruta. 



3. Ferae. 



4. Glires. 



5. Pecora. 



6. Belluae. 



7. Cetse. 



And after describing tlie first order, primates, as having cutting foreteeth, four parallel 

 upper teeth, and two pectoral teats, he divides it into 



1. Homo. 



2. Simia. 



3. Lemur. 



4. Vespertilio. Tarton's Trcmslat n^vol.1. 

 Several new systems have been formed, the most esteemed of which are those of Biu- 



menhar.h and Cnvier- 



Blumenbach's is as follows: 



There are two grand divisions of animals ; those which have a vertebral column and 

 red blood, and those which have no vertebras and are white blooded. 



He subdivides vertebral animals into the warm and cold blooded, and makes two classes 

 of warm-blooded animals : 



1. Mammalia. 



2. Birds. 



And he distributes the class mammalia into six orders : 



1. Bimanum ; two handed animals. 



2. Quadrumana ; four handed animals. 



3. Bradypoda ; slow-moving animals. 



4. Cheiroptera ; having the fingers elongated for the expansion of a membrane, 



which acts as a wing. 



5. Glires ; gnawing animals. 



6. Ferae ; predaceous and carnivorous animals. 



For all the outlines see the Introduction to Blumenbach's Short System of Compara- 

 tive Anatomy, by William Lawrence. 



Cuvier, also, divides the animal kingdom into two great families; 1. Animals which 

 have vertebra? and red blood; 2. Animals without vertebra?, almost all of which have 

 white blood. 



