On the existence of branchiae in the young Caeciliae, and on a modification and extension of the branchial classification of the Amphibia / by John Hogg.
- John Hogg
- Date:
- [1841]
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Credit: On the existence of branchiae in the young Caeciliae, and on a modification and extension of the branchial classification of the Amphibia / by John Hogg. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![XXXVIII.— On the Existence of Branchia in the young Caeoi- liae; and on a Modification and Extension of the Branchial Classification of the Amphibia*. By John Hogg, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.C.P.S., &c. Looking over, in November last, the volume of the ^ Comptes Rendus’ of the meetings of the Academy of Sciences at Paris for the year 1839, I came to the report of a paper entitled. Notice historique sur la place assignee aux Cecilies dans la serie zoologique, par M. de Blainville,” in which (No. 22, at p. 673) I read the passage which I have thus translated :— “ In the mean time, in 1836, on the opportunity of describing some reptiles which were brought from California by M. P. E. Botta, I gave a characterized analysis of my system of Herpetology and Amphibiology, and I supported the place that I had assigned to the Ccecilia by the curious fact observed by Prof. Muller of a young Ccecilia in the Museum at Leyden, which was furnished with branchial apertures. 1839. Although this fact appears not to have been known, any more than, without a doubt, my own labours on this sub- ject were, to Mr. John Hogg, vi'ho has just published a long memoir on the Classification of the Amphibia in Mr. Charles- worth’s Magazine of Nat. Hist.’ for June [and concluded in the August Number] 1839, it will be there seen that he has also arrived at the same conclusion with us; that is to say, of making a distinct class of the Batrachians under the name of Amphibia, and a separate order of the Ccecilice under the new denomination of Abranchia, because he has selected for his principal consideration the organs of respiration : only that he places them at the commencement, in order to connect * [This communication, in its original state, was received by the Editors in the middle of February; but they retained it until the author’s return to London, in order to direct his attention to the papers on the Zewirfoszmj bv M. Milne Edwards and Sir W. Jardine.—Ed.] ^ Ann. ^ Mag. N. Hist. Vol. vii. 2 A](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22390807_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
