The Bridgewater treatises on the power, wisdom and goodness of God, as manifested in the creationTreatise I-VIII . C JC (ju/rtU. ijH Mjt-ije/r. ^ ?». J^ ^^ THE HISTORY, HABITS, AND INSTINCTS OF ANIMALS. Chapter XIII. Tiinctiofis and Instincts, Cirripedes and Crindideans, CIRRIPEDES. 1 HERE is a class of animals defended by multi-valve shells, separated from the Molluscans notonly by the more complex structure of theirshells, but also by very material differences inthe organization of the creatures that inhabitthem. These Linne considered as forming asingle genus, which he named Lepas, a
The Bridgewater treatises on the power, wisdom and goodness of God, as manifested in the creationTreatise I-VIII . C JC (ju/rtU. ijH Mjt-ije/r. ^ ?». J^ ^^ THE HISTORY, HABITS, AND INSTINCTS OF ANIMALS. Chapter XIII. Tiinctiofis and Instincts, Cirripedes and Crindideans, CIRRIPEDES. 1 HERE is a class of animals defended by multi-valve shells, separated from the Molluscans notonly by the more complex structure of theirshells, but also by very material differences inthe organization of the creatures that inhabitthem. These Linne considered as forming asingle genus, which he named Lepas, a wordderived from the Greek lexicographers, andexplained by Hesychius as meaning a kind ofshell-fish that adheres to the rocks. In thiscountry these animals are known by the generalname of Sarnacles. Lamarck, I believe, wasthe first who regarded them as entitled to the VOL. II. ^ 15 2 FUNCTIONS AND INSTINCTS. rank of a class, which he denommated Cirr-hipeda, not conscious, that by the insertion ofthe aspirate, he made his term, hke Monoculus,half Greek and half Latin: later writers whohave adopted the class, to avoid this barbarism,have changed the t
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