American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-11-27
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LECTURE OF THE

REV. u npIfANIs'
SuBjEcT-".qn Evening with the ,NaturaLisls."
The third Lecture of the course III the LIST
English Lutheran Church, Lexington street,
was delivered on Monday night by the Rev.
Dr.. Morris. The speaker began by stating that
if was not his design to deliver regular scen-
tific lecture ON any distinct branch of the Am
nal Kingdom, but TO lead his audience with
him on an excursion over wide lie" and stop
occasionally to make few obserya IS on the
wonders that surround them. / roulC be
systematic in every subject he intr d, but
could not dwell loog on any partcu.. one.
Naturalists have disposed into re- ular, sys-
tematic order, every thing in creation that has
us yet been discovered they find relations be-
tween all thng3-dependen OH one another;
links uniting families and tribes, which, when
brought together, constitute a beautiful and
harmonious whole.
Animals and plants are scattered pronlscu-
ouslyg over all the earth-there Is apparent
confusion, but when those Of similar charac-
ter are brought together, they present to oar
view the beautiful system alluded to. lie here
showed the relations and dependencies OF ami
mails, and demonstrated that "nature made no
leaps" but that all living things are connect
cd together by a series of unbroken links.
After these preliminary observations, he
characterized the four grand divisions of all
known animals, the TcriebrattS, the ,frticuiqtes,
.NotEHks and Radjates. He dwelt for some
time Oh the rertebraies, and showed from draw
iaCs tha. all the animals OF this division, a.
though differing in many respects, are still sim
liar in many; and that man and frog, IN or
Ganzaton, are not so far apart as many sup
pose The two pairs Of members, (the hands
and feet though differently formed in different
classes Of animals ar0 yet essentially the same
in all. This was illustrated by diagram Of
The skeleton Of man, bird, reptile and
fish.
He next divided the cerlebraIcs into cIas5es
and showed the necessity of this course. The
first was tho mammals, i. e. those animals which
noursh their young with milk. He showed
why they were placed at the head;-man be-
longs TO it--animaIs Of this class have most IN
fenirenCe-must delicate sensation, ana most
elaborate organization.
He now demonstrated the necessity OF Il fur
ther division, for man is a mammal, so Is a
whale, but it is not proper to put man and the
whale on level These were then divided
into classes, the first of which was the Bimana
or two handed animals. Man is the only re.
preventative of this order. He here character
zed the different races of men, and argued
That these were not species but rarietieS, main
tanning the Scriptural doctrine OF the descent
Of the whole human family from one orgna
pair.
The next order was the Quadrunana, or foul
handed animals, including the monkeys, &c
Here the lecturer made some amusing remarks
on the apparent similarity between man and
our "broiher monkey" He alluded TO the
theory of Lord Monboddo, that man is nothing
more than an educated monkey, and showed
its absurdity. He dwelt for some time ON the
difference between the anatomical structure OF
man and the monkey, and vndcated man from
the aspersion.
He briefly passed over the other orders of the
mammals, stopping occasionally to point out
the most remarkable characteristics He ex-
hibted finely prepared specimen of bat, and
dwclt for some time on that curious animal,
and related some amusing anecdotes Of the
habits Of the vampire bat of South America.