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nombreux, susceptibles de mouvemens varies, une bouche 

 garriie de levres et de machoires, un systtme nerveux forme 

 d'une suite de ganglions, tout annonce que la nature va 

 nous conduire a V embranchement des animaux articulis ; 

 il riy auroit meme rien aVitonnant que Men des natura- 

 listes, d'apres la description que nous allons donner, ne pen- 

 sassent que les cirrhopodes appartiennent deja a cet em- 

 branchement, et nous ne blamerons point ceux qui croiront 

 devoir les y ranger." Perhaps no passage in the writings 

 of M. Cuvier demonstrates more clearly than this the ex- 

 traordinary manner, in which he combines accuracy of 

 observation with utter insensibility to the advantages 

 he might derive from the application of his knowledge of 

 facts to the discovery of the natural system. He is too 

 sagacious to blame those who consider a Cirripede to be 

 a Crustaceous animal, at the same time that he persists 

 in placing it among the Mollusca because its body is not 

 articulated, because " nous avons deja dans le genre des 

 tarets des exemples des membres articules, comme enjin la 

 coquille des anatifes semble modelee sur plusieurs bivalves." 

 Now, though there is no reason to believe that the body 

 of a Cirripede is much less articulated than that of a Cy- 

 pris or Daphnia, and though it is even more articulated 

 than the body of many Acarida, yet it is unquestionably 

 true that hermaphrodites like the Cirripedes are not in 

 reality Annulosa ; they ought in fact to be considered as 

 leading to less articulated animals, but which are certainly 

 neither Mollusca nor Annelides. As to the shell being mo- 

 delled on the same plan with that of the Mollusca, so we 

 have seen that of the genus Cypris to be : yet neither 

 Linnseus nor Cuvier himself ever thought of this being a 

 Mollusque. " La coquille," says Lamarck, " n'est pas h 



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