THE PACHYDERMES. 
It is proposed to devote the present volume to 
one of the Baron Cuvier’s orders, which succeeds, 
and is very nearly allied to the last animals 
we treated of. It comprises creatures of great 
utility when domesticated, and of very remark- 
able form and structure. 
The Pachydermes of Cuvier is evidently a group 
hearing only the rank of a tribe or family, and 
not of an order. It forms the seventh order of the 
Baron’s system, followed by the Ruminants, with 
part of the orders Bruta and Bellum of Linnaeus ; 
while, in the natural arrangement proposed by Mr 
Swainson, it is made to form a portion of his great 
