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Excerpt from Zoological Classification: A Handy Book of Reference With Tables of the Subkingdoms, Classes, Orders, of the Animal Kingdom, Their Characters and Lists of the Families and Principal Genera MY aim in the first edition of this work was to produce, as its title implies, a handy book of reference to the Classification of the Animal Kingdom, and to bring the contents of the various groups under the eye in the most concise and simple form. Beyond this some general notices were given, and the English names of the species, so far as they had any, and their scientific equivalents. No original remarks were attempted and no Opi nions expressed, excepting in the synoptical tables, and for them I claimed the indulgence of those who saw their way to a better selection of characters; as to the classification, it is useless not to expect to find differences of Opinion. In this edition the latest works have been consulted, especially those of Schmarda and Claus, which, as giving the most recent views of the German naturalists, have been repeatedly referred to. I have not thought it necessary to go into any details respecting divisions, subdivi sions, and so on, and their names, which specialists in so many instances delight to produce. Practically they are of little use, and serve chiefly as headings to their author's own pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Zoological Classification: A Handy Book of Reference With Tables of the Subkingdoms, Classes, Orders, of the Animal Kingdom, Their Characters and Lists of the Families and Principal Genera About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Animal Kingdom, Vol. 1 of 4: Arranged According to Its Organization, Serving as a Foundation for the Natural History of Animals, and an Introduction to Comparative Anatomy I should, perhaps, have contented myself with perfecting these tables, and proceeded immediately to the publication of my great work on ana tomy, if, in the course of my researches, I had not been frequently struck with another defect of the greater number of the general or partial sys tems of zoology; I mean the confusion in which the want of critica'i acumen has left a great number of species, and even several genera. Not only were the classes and orders not in conformity with the ia timate nature of the animals, for the purpose of forming a foundation for a treatise on comparative anatomy; but the genera, though undoubtedly for the most part better composed, presented in their nomenclature very inadequate materials, inasmuch as the species were not arranged under each of them respectively according to its character. Thus, in placing the Sea cow (manatus, Cue.) in the genus Morse (trichechus, Lira), the Siren in that of the Eels, Gmelin had rendered any general proposition relative to the organization of these two genera impossible, just as by approximating to the same class the same order, and placing side by side the Sepia and the fresh water Polypus, he had made it impossible to say any thing in general on the class and order which embraced such different beings. The examples above cited are selected from the most striking of these errors; but the number of them that existed was infinite, and, though not so easily to be perceived at the first glance, still they were not the less sources of real inconvenience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.