A synopsis of natural history : embracing the natural history of animals, with human and general animal physiology, botany, vegetable physiology, and geology / translated from the latest French edition of C. Lemmonnier, with additions from the works of Cuvier, Dumaril, Lacepede, etc., and arranged as a text book for schools by Thomas Wyatt.
- Lemonnier, Céran
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A synopsis of natural history : embracing the natural history of animals, with human and general animal physiology, botany, vegetable physiology, and geology / translated from the latest French edition of C. Lemmonnier, with additions from the works of Cuvier, Dumaril, Lacepede, etc., and arranged as a text book for schools by Thomas Wyatt. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![Tribe II. Galeopithf.cus. Fingers of the anterior limbs all furnished with trenchant claws, and not longer than those of the posterior limbs ; so that the lateral membrane performs only the office of a spe- cies of parachute; live upon trees, where they leap from branch to branch; insectivorous. [Indian Archipelago.] FAMILY II. INSECTIVORA. No wings nor parachute, but clavicles like the first family. Molar teeth studded with little conical points, in accordance with their insectivorous habits; some have long incisors in front; others incisors and canini shorter than the molars; mammas placed under the abdomen; size small; life noc- turnal; habitation, during the day, in holes and burrows. In cold climates many of them pass the winter in a torpid state. Genus I. ERiNACEus,**Lin. Hedgehog. Spines instead of hairs ; the skin of the back is furnished with such muscles, that the animal, by inclining the head and feet towards the abdomen, can shut itself up as in a purse, and present his spines on all sides to an enemy; ha- bitation in the woods; life nocturnal. Genus II. Sorex, Lin. Shrew. Body small, covered with hair; muzzle sharply pointed ; ears short and rounded; upon each flank a band of stiff setse, from which issues an odorous humour; habitation in holes excavated in the earth; life nocturnal. Genus III. Talpa. Mole. Type of digging, subterranean animals; body thick and short; muzzle elongated and terminated b\ a movable snout, serving to pierce the earth; anterior limbs very short, very strong, wide, with united fingers to the number of five, and armed with trenchant claws proper for digging. Hinder feet weak, and with five fingers; tail rather short; eye small and concealed by hair; no external ear.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21136427_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
