Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1907-11-01 | Page 5 | The Number of Animals

THE NUMBER OF ANIMALS recent attempts to tabulate the beasts that perish every now and then some natural endeavors to make an approximate numerical count of known animal species this kind of attempt to Is sure ly not without interest intel Inte iest but it must be acknowledged that its ita results are very uncertain we are fat fai from knowing all species ard there is set a delight ful ul prospect ahead for those who love systematic zoology and for zoologists who bestow mutual honors by giving each others other s names to some animal hitherto unknown As burmann remarked to a recent meeting of at the museum to which he presented his hia catalogues cataloguer Catal Mam mallum the species of rodi rodents rits known in 1880 were only in rumber number now they are 1900 1 the num nuin ber has thus at least doubled in 27 years the number of living hying species of this creature now known is about 1500 1 BOO divided among genera this family Is the most numerous of the class of mammilla wissen fur alle