The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2)Spencer, Herbert
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The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2)
Spencer, Herbert
Biology
37. Daphnales.
38. Santalales.
39. Rafflesiales.
40. Asarales.
41. Euphorbiales.
42. Podostemales.
43. Viridifloræ.
44. Amentales.
45. Balanophorales.
II. Monopetalæ
46. Caprifoliales.
47. Asterales.
48. Campanales.
49. Ericales.
50. Vaccinales.
51. Primulales.
52. Tubifloræ.
III. Polypetalæ
53. Ranales.
54. Parietales.
55. Malvales.
56. Discifloræ.
57. Crateranthæ.
58. Myrtales.
59. Melastomales.
60. Lythrales.
61. Hygrobiæ.
62. Passifloræ.
63. Pepones.
64. Cactales.
65. Ficoidales.
66. Umbellales.
On studying the definitions of these primary, secondary, and tertiary
classes, it will be found that the largest are marked off from one another
by some attribute which connotes sundry other attributes; that each of the
smaller classes comprehended in one of these largest classes, is marked off
in a similar way from the other smaller classes bound up with it; and that
so, each successively smaller class has an increased number of co-existing
attributes.
§ 100. Zoological classification has had a parallel history. The first
attempt which we need notice, to arrange animals in such a way as to
display their affinities, is that of Linnæus. He grouped them thus:[42]--
CL. 1. MAMMALIA. _Ord._ Primates, Bruta, Feræ, Glires, Pecora, Belluæ,
Cete.
CL. 2. AVES. _Ord._ Accipitres, Picæ, Anseres, Grallæ, Gallinæ, Passeres.
CL. 3. AMPHIBIA. _Ord._ Reptiles, Serpentes, Nantes.
CL. 4. PISCES. _Ord._ Apodes, Jugulares, Thoracici, Abdominales.
CL. 5. INSECTA. _Ord._ Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Lepidoptera, Neuroptera,
Diptera, Aptera.
CL. 6. VERMES. _Ord._ Intestina, Mollusca, Testacea, Lithophyta,
Zoophyta.
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