...oviparous, and when compared with the mammalia, exhibit a plan of organization peculiarly proper ta themselves in the vertebrated division of the animal...are placed at the head of the animal kingdom, not only-because it is the class to which we ourselves belong, but also because all the species included...

...called Mammalia from the circumstance of their nourishing their young with their milk. This class is placed at the head of the Animal Kingdom, not only...it is the class to which we ourselves belong, but because all the species included in it, enjoy the most numerous faculties, the most delicate sensations,...

...extensive in its application, these orders are marshalled into separate CLASSES. SECTION II. Class I. Mammalia. THE Mammalia are placed at the head of the animal kingdom. It is to this class that man, considered as an object of natural history, properly belongs ; and beside...

...lungs, viviparous, and suckling their young irith milk formed in their breasts, or THE class Mammalia is placed at the head of the Animal kingdom, not only because it is the class to which Man, considered in his animal structure, belongs, but also because the Mammalia enjoy the most numerous...

...Linnean Systems. (Coniinuedfrom p. 134.) sequent classes. The class of mammiferous animals ought to be placed at the head of the animal kingdom, not only...it is the class to which we ourselves belong, but because it is that which possesses the most numerous faculties, the most delicate sensations, and the...

...elongated envelops characteristic extensible sensibility anterior mastication horizontal prehension THE mammalia are placed at the head of the animal...sensations, and the most varied powers of motion. As the quantity of respiration in the mammalia is moderate, so, generally speaking, these animals are-...

...destroyed by accident. To this class belongs the Sponge, and the numerous families of the Coral. 3. The mammalia are placed at the head of the animal...kingdom ; not only because it is the class to which man himself belongs, but because it also enjoys the most numerous faculties, the most delicate sensations,...

...comprising animals which hare mamntts and suckle their young. Epithets mammalian and mtiHiittifi-rous. The mammalia are placed at the head of the animal kingdom, not only because it IB the class to which Man himself belongs, but also because it is that which enjoys the most numerous...

...extensive in its application, these orders are marshalled into separate CLASSES. SECTION II. Class I. Mammalia. THE Mammalia are placed at the head of the animal kingdom. It is to this class that man, considered as an object of nattfral history, properly belongs ; and beside...

...Part of the present edition of ' The History of Animated Nature' is devoted. The niamma'.ia should be placed at the head of the animal kingdom, not only because it is the class to which iii.:ii li JIIH belongs, but because it surpasses all others in the enjoyment of mote numerous faculties,...