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The history of the earth and animated nature, Volume 4

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Oliver Goldsmith

A. Fullarton&Company, 1832

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Contents

Of the Tortoise and its Kinds	19

Of the Shell of Testaceous Fishes	37

Of Turbinated Shell Fish or the Snail Kind	51

Of Bivalved Shell Fish or Shells of the Oyster	65

Of Multivalve ShellFish	80

OF FROGS LIZARDS AND SERPENTS	87

Of the Toad and its Varieties	100

OF THE LIZARD KIND	112

Edentata	502

Ruminantia	511

Cetacea	521

Classification of Birds	527

ORDER IRapaces	531

Omnivorous Birds	534

Insectivorous Birds	540

Granivorous Birds	550

Of the Salamander	130

Of the Cameleon the Iguana and Lizards of dif	136

Of Serpents in general	146

Of Venomous Serpents in general	164

Of Serpents without Venom	183

Of Insects without Wings	199

Of the Spider and its Varieties	203

Of the Flea	219

CHAP VII	230

Of the Scolopendra and GallyWorm	239

BOOK IIINSECTS OF THE SECOND ORDER	245

CHAP IIIOf the Formica Leo or LionAnt	251

Of the Earwig the Froth Insect and some others	274

OF INSECTS OF THE THIRD ORDER	282

Of Butterflies and Moths	297

CHAP IV	306

Of the SilkWorm	315

Of the Bee	318

CHAP IIIOf the Wasp	344

CHAP IV	356

CHAP VI	373

Of the Gnat Tipula	394

OF THE ZOOPHYTES	402

Of the StarFish	408

Of the Polypus	414

Of the Lythophytes and Sponges	421

APPENDIX	429

CLASS FIRST MAMMALIA OR ANIMALS WHICH SUCKLE THEIR	440

Carnassiers	456

Feræ	467

Marsupialia	485

Zygodactylous Birds	554

Anisodactyli	560

Alcyonės	564

Chelidones	565

Columbæ	566

Gallinæ	567

Alectorides	573

Cursores	574

Grallatores	576

Pinnatipedes	585

Palmipedes	587

Inertes	595

CLASS THIRD REPTILES ORDER I Chelonia	596

Sauria	597

Ophidia	602

Batrachia	606

CLASS FOURTH FISHES ORDER I Cyclostomi	608

Sturiones	609

Plectognathi	610

Malacopterygii Abdominalis 611	610

Malacopterygii Subranchiati 612	610

Malacopterygii Apodes 613	610

Acanthopterygii 614	610

INVERTEBRAL ANIMALS DIVISION II MOLLUSCA	610

Heteropoda	610

Trachelipoda	612

Gasteropoda	624

Dimyaira	630

CLASS IIICIRRIPEDA	635

CLASS VIIArachnides	643

RADIATA	649

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A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, Volume 4
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
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Bibliographic information

Title	The history of the earth and animated nature, Volume 4 The history of the earth and animated nature, Thomas BROWN (Captain, F.L.S.)
Author	Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher	A. Fullarton&Company, 1832
Original from	The British Library
Digitized	13 Dec 2018

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