Part 17

Scale: VERTEBRATA Mammalia: 55 Plantigrada

Order: Plantigrada (bear)

Rocks: 10. Miocene

Scale: VERTEBRATA Mammalia: 55 Plantigrada

Order: Cetacea (lamantins, seals, whales)

Rocks: 10. Miocene

Scale: VERTEBRATA Mammalia: 56 Insectivora

Order: Edentata (sloths, &c.)

Rocks: 11. Pliocene

Scale: VERTEBRATA Mammalia: 56 Insectivora

Order: Ruminantia (oxen, deer, &c.)

Rocks: 11. Pliocene

Scale: VERTEBRATA Mammalia: 57 Cheiroptera

Rocks: 11. Pliocene

Scale: VERTEBRATA Mammalia: 58 Quadrumana

Order: Quadrumana (monkeys)

Rocks: 11. Pliocene

Fœtal: 8th month, that of the quadrumana;

Scale: VERTEBRATA Mammalia: 59 Bimana

Order: Bimana (man)

Rocks: 12. Superficial deposits

Fœtal: 9th month, attains full human character;

{229} Some poor people having taken up their abode in the cells under the fortifications of Lisle, the proportion of defective infants produced by them became so great, that it was deemed necessary to issue an order commanding these cells to be shut up.

{232} These affinities and analogies are explained in the next chapter.

{239a} Corresponding to the articulata of Cuvier.

{239b} A new sub-kingdom, made out of part of the radiata of Cuvier.

{239c} This is a newly applied term, the reasons for which will be explained in the sequel.

{242} This is preferred to grallatorial, as more comprehensively descriptive. There is the same need for a substitute for rasorial, which is only applicable to birds.