The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization
THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS' LIBRARY mmi ^"^^^ Return this book on or before the Latest Date stamped below. A charge is made on all overdue books. University of Illinois Library Digitized by the Internet Arciiive in 2011 witii funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://www.archive.org/details/animalkingdomarr05cuvi : THE ANIMAL KINGDOM ARRANGED IN CONFORMITY WITH ITS ORGANIZATION, BY THE BARON CUVIER, MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, ^c. f)C. §c. ADDITIONAL DESCRIPTIONS ALL THE SPECIES HITHERTO NAMED, AND OF MANY NOT BEFORE NOTICED, EDWARD GRIFFITH, F.L.S., A.S., ^c AND OTHERS. VOLUME THE FIFTH. LONDON PRINTED FOR GEO. B. WHITTAKER, AVE-MARIA-LANE. MDCCCXXVII. LONDON: Printed by William Clowes, Charing Cross. SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES CLASS MAMMALIA, AS ARRANGED WITH REFERENCE TO THEIR ORGANIZATION, C U V I E R, AND OTHER NATURALISTS SPECIFIC CHARACTERS, SYNONYMA, Sfc. 8fc. VOLUME THE FIFTH. LONDON: PRINTED FOR GEO. B. WHITTAKER, AVE-MARIA-LANE. MDCCCXXVII. LONDON: Printed by William Clowes, Charing Cross. \ s SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES "^ OF THE CLASS MAMMALIA. I p The preceding supplemental essays on the text of our author, like the text itself, by no means furnish even I a I sketch of all the species hitherto described, but as the ex- I amination of the most ingenious machinery, however inte- resting in the detail of all its parts, is but an idle amuse- I I ment, unless the final object and utility of the machine itself i!;, be borne in mind, so the study of the various peculiarities of 4 organized nature is but a profitless pursuit unless the cha- racters, habits, and relative situations of the several ani- mals themselves be considered.
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