# A history of land mammals in the western hemisphere

Author: Scott, William Berryman, 1858-1947

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75110

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+history+of+land+mammals+in+the+western+hemisphere+Scott&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The term _Mammal_ has no exact equivalent in the true vernacular of any modern language, the word itself, like its equivalents, the French _Mammifère_ and the German _Säugethier_, being entirely artificial. As a name for the class Linnæus adopted the term Mammalia, which he formed from the Latin _mamma_ (_i.e._ teat) to designate those animals which suckle their young; hence the abbreviated form Mammal, which has been naturalized as an English word. “Beast,” as employed in the Bible, and “Quadruped” are not quite the same as mammal, for they do not include the marine forms, such as whales, dolphins, seals, walruses, or the flying bats, and they are habitually used in contradistinction to...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/19/index.md)
- [mid. Eocene, 267;](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-land-mammals-in-the-western-hemisphere-75110/chapters/2/index.md)