Annals & Magazine of Natural History Volume 15 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... from which we learn that it contains 4350 botanical works. It is greatly to be hoped that an arranged and descriptive catalogue of this library will be prepared and given to the public. We know of few works which would be of greater service to botanists. A copious index concludes the volume. The whole evinces in every part the hand of a master, and does its author the greatest credit. It only requires to be known to find its way into the hands of all botanists. Classification der S&ugethiere und Vb'gel. Von J. J. Kaup. Pp. 144. 8vo. Darmstadt, 1844. In this work the author endeavours to arrange the Mammalia and Birds, and elaborates them into a quinary system, resembling in structure but differing in detail from the quinary systems which flourished for a time in this country. Like the British quinarians. Dr. Kaup insists on a uniformity and constancy in the analogies between corresponding groups, while he follows Oken in extending these analogies to the anatomical systems of organization which are more or less developed in each animal according as it represents one set of organs or another. Thus he makes his first subkingdom to consist of--1. Mollusca, or generation-animals; 2. Fish, or muscle-animals; 3. Amphibia, or bone-animals; 4. Birds, or lung-animals; 5. Mammalia, or sense-animals. He then proceeds to ring the changes on these anatomical structures, maintaining that the same set of analogies pervade all the minor groups: that the Rasores are generationbirds; the Natatores, muscle-birds; the Grallatores, bone-birds; the Insessores, lung-birds; the Scansores, sense-birds, and so on. It is needless to follow the author further in these far-fetched and visionary analogies, which are so much more congenial to the German than to the...