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MEMOIR OF LAMARCK.
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Invertebrate Animals. I. Apathetic Animals.
 1. Infusoria.
 2. Polypes.
 3. Radiarii.
 4. Vermes.
(Epizoaires.)
II. Sentient Animals.
 5. Insecta.
 6. Arachnides.
 7. Crustacea.
 8. Annelides.
 9. Cirrhipedes.
10. Mollusca.
Vertebrate Animals. III. Intelligent Animals.
11. Pisces.
12. Reptilia.
13. Aves.
14. Mammiferæ.

The animals of the first primary division he defines as destitute of feeling, and moving only by their excited irritability; and he assigns as their character, the absence of a brain and of an elongate medullary mass; senses wanting; forms various; articulations rarely existing. The animals of the second division feel, but they obtain from their sensations only perceptions of objects, a kind of simple ideas which they are unable to combine with each other in order to form complex ones. They possess no vertebral column, but have a brain and most frequently an elongate medullary mass; some distinct senses; organs of motion attached under the