On the natural history and classification of quadrupeds / [William Swainson].

  • Swainson, William, 1789-1855
Date:
1835
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the natural history and classification of quadrupeds / [William Swainson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS, PART I. ON THE GREAT DIVISIONS OF ORGANISED MATTER, AND ON THE RELATIONS WHICH QUADRUPEDS BEAR TO OTHER GROUPS OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. CHAPTER I. Primary Definitions. — On Matter, Time, and Space. — The Station of Man in the Creation - Page 1 CHAP. II. Op the Distinction of an Animal from a Vegetable. — The primary Divi- sions of the Animal Kingdom. — Various Theories of Linnasus, Virey, Cuvier, and MacLeay. — Names and Definitions of those here adopted. — Relation of these Groups to Vegetables - - - 13 CHAP. III. On the Situation of Quadrupeds among Vertebrated Animals, r— Their essential Distinctions, their primary Divisions, and their Analogies to the Orders of Birds - - . - - 43 PART II. ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. CHAP. I. On the Order Quadrumana: its general Characters, physical, moral, and analogical; its minor Divisions, with Intimations of the Habits and Manners of the Animals it contains - - - 56