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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![Genus I. Echidna, Cuv. Muzzle very slender and elongated, terminated by a small mouth; tongue very extensible; body covered with very strong spines, sometimes intermingled with hair; feet short; nails strong, fit for digging; tail very short. Genus II. Ornithorhynchus, Blumcnb. Muzzle elongated, horny, wide, much depressed, in the form of a duck's bill, and garnished with small transverse laminae. Mouth provided above and below with only two teeth without roots, and with flat crowns. Fore feet with a membrane between the toes; the hind ones have it only as far as the root of the nails. [Marshes of New Holland.] ORDER VII. PACHYDERMATA.* Feet with five, three, two or one toe unguiculated; that is to say, where one or more phalanges are entirely enve- loped in a large nail called hoof, which renders prehension impossible; frequently three sorts of teeth, sometimes only two; no clavicles; stomach simple or divided into several pouches, but unfit for rumination; skin most frequently thick, naked or nearly so. Three families. FAMILY I. PROBOSCIDIA.NA. Five toes to each foot, incrusted with a callous skin which surrounds the foot, scarcely perceived except by the nails that appear to be attached to the edge of this skin or species of hoof; four to eight molars; no canine; incisives, project- ing sufficiently to be called tusks, frequently attaining to a large size ; trunk or proboscis very long ; with it he conveys his food and water to his mouth; mammae, two in number, attached to the chest; the young suck with the mouth, not using the trunk for that purpose. There are two genera, of which one (Mastodon, Cuv.) is fossil. Thick bkinued.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21136427_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
