Vestiges of the natural history of creation / [Anon].

  • Robert Chambers
Date:
1844
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Credit: Vestiges of the natural history of creation / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    settled views on the subject amongst naturalists. Mr. Swainson, who alone has given a review of the animal kingdom on the Macleay system, un- fortunately writes on this subject in a manner which excites a suspicion as to his judgment. His arrangement of the first or typical order of the mammalia is therefore to be received with great hesitation. It is as follows: Typical . Quadrumana Pre-eminently organized for grasping. Sub-typical Fere . . Claws retractile; carnivorous. Natatorial Cetacea. . Pre-eminently aquatic; feet very short. Suctorial. Glires . . Muzzle lengthened and pointed. Rasorial . Ungulata . Crests and other processes on the head. He then takes the quadrumana, and places it in the following arrangement :— Typical. . Simiade . . (Monkeys of Old World.) Sub-typical. Cebide . . (Monkeys of New World.) Natatorial . Unknown. Suctorial . Vespertilionide (Bats.) Rasorial. . Lemuride . (Lemurs.) He considers the simiade as a complete circle, and argues thence that there is no room in the range of the animal kingdom for man. Man, he says, is not a constituent part of any circle, for, if he were, there ought to be other animals on each hand having affinity to him, whereas there are none, the resemblance of the ourangs being one of N 2
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