MEMOIR OF LAMARCK.
53
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