mammifers

It is certain that the West Indies possess some mammifers peculiar to themselves.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

It is certain that the West Indies possess some mammifers peculiar to themselves.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The inequalities on the brain of man and most of the mammifers were denominated by the celebrated Willis,

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

The theories of Willis gave birth to the whole system of Dr. Gall: the _plicæ_ are found in the class of mammifers alone; they are rarer and less marked in the lower than in the higher species of the great family of monkeys and baboons.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

Is it possible to discriminate, in man, and among the mammifers that have them, constant characters of particular types, of families, genera, and even of species?

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

That the simpler form of organic life should first appear; that remains of invertebrated animals should be first found; then, with these, fish, being the lowest of the vertebrated; next, reptiles and birds, which occupy higher grades; and finally, along with the rest, mammifers, the highest of all -- all this appears natural enough.

An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges Anonymous

But Grosse wishes us to complete the collection of historical evidence with ethnographical and prehistoric materials, for we cannot obtain really general laws of art from the exclusive study of cultivated peoples, "just as a theory of reproduction exclusively based upon the form it takes with mammifers, must necessarily be imperfect!"

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

It is certain that the West Indies possess some mammifers peculiar to themselves.

Chapter VII 1909

Robert, searching like a ferret, came upon a nest made of interwoven roots, and in it a pair of birds destitute of wings and tail, with four toes, a long snipe-like beak, and a covering of white feathers over the whole body, singular creatures, which seemed to connect the oviparous tribes with the mammifers.

In Search of the Castaways 1873

I have been trying to realize from memory the particular instincts of those antediluvian animals of the secondary period, which succeeding to the mollusca, to the crustacea, and to the fish, preceded the appearance of the race of mammifers.

Voyage au centre de la terre. English Jules Verne 1866