On The Classification And Geographical Distribution Of The Mammalia

Author : Richard Owen
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ISBN 13 : 9781332305360
Total Pages : 112 pages
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Download or read book On the Classification and Geographical Distribution of the Mammalia written by Richard Owen and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Classification and Geographical Distribution of the Mammalia: Being the Lecture on Sir Robert Reade's Foundation, Delivered Before the University of Cambridge May 10, May to Which to Added Is Added an Appendix, Gorilla, and on the Extinction My first impulse in availing myself of the privilege of addressing you in this place, is, to give expression to the deep sense which I entertain of the honour conferred on me by my appointment to 'Sir Robert Reade's Lectureship, ' especially as it is the first which has been made since the revival of that ancient foundation. Believe me, Sir, I truly appreciate the favour of your choice, and am fully impressed with the responsibilities which it involves. And if my acknowledgments should seem curt or inadequate, I would beseech you to believe that this results from the wish not to trespass too long on your most valuable time, but to devote to the subject selected as much as may be of the period commonly allotted to an oral discourse. In reviewing, for the choice of this subject, the field of Natural Science in which I am a labourer, I desired to select one that might be treated of with a certain degree of completeness in a single Lecture, one that would enable me to submit to you some of the more recent generalisations in Natural History, and at the same time exemplify the applicability of that science, as a discipline, to the improvement of the intellect, and especially as a sharpener of the faculties of observation and of methodical arrangement. I trust that in the attempt to briefly unfold the Classification and Geographical Distribution of the Mammalia I may attain the end I have in view. The generalisation resulting in the idea of the natural group of animals, so called, is one of ancient date. The Zootoka of Aristotle included the same outwardly diverse but organically similar beings which constitute the Mammalia of modern Naturalists. 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.