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Excerpt from A New Theory of the Origin of Species
The animal kingdom was classified by the late Prof. Louis Agassiz into five great branches or types, to wit: protozoa, radiates, molluscs, articulates and vertebrates, according to a plan of structure peculiar to, and running through each. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
