Jupiter had to Creation, but simply for the negative reason that they had nobody else) -- never does Jupiter seem more disgusting than when as just now in a translation of the 'Batrachia' I read that Jupiter had given to frogs an amphibious nature, making the awful, ancient, first-born secrets of Chaos to be his, and thus forcing into contrast and remembrance his odious personality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1] Reference

I wonder if your downstairs neighbourg has any idea that he has a family of Batrachia living over his head?.    From Wordnik.com.  [the snowman upstairs] Reference

When the Batrachia above mentioned were discovered, they appeared inanimate, but the influence of a warm sun to which they were subjected soon imparted to them a moderate degree of vigor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

FROGS, called by zoologists after the Greek name, Batrachia.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

Serpents; the Testudinata, or Tortoises; and the Batrachia, or Frogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

Trias combined characters of the Batrachia with those of crocodiles, lizards, and ganoid fishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays] Reference

In ascending from fishes through the Vertebrate sub-kingdom, a sternum first appears in the class Batrachia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

What other animals of the class Batrachia constitute an order which approaches nearest to the Frog's order Anoura?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

Thus the class Batrachia, as a whole, presents a very interesting analogy and parallelism with the class Reptilia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

The Efts (or Newts) with their allies-hereinafter noticed -- constitute the second order Urodela of the class Batrachia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

In cold latitudes the Batrachia, like the Reptilia, go into the winter sleep called hibernation, as also do the hedgehogs and bats amongst Mammals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

This class is with propriety spoken of as the Frog's class, since the Frog is the species from which its scientific derivation Batrachia is derived.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

The class Batrachia agrees both with fishes and reptiles in having the blood cold, more than one aortic arch, and (except in crocodiles) in not having the distinct ventricles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

In a similar way it seems probable that the subdivisions (orders) of the class Batrachia, mimic, as it were, quite independently the subdivisions (orders) of the class Reptilia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

The remaining class, Batrachia, will require more lengthy consideration, both as a whole and as regards the four orders which compose it, and which are called respectively, 1, Anoura; 2, Urodela; 3, Ophiomorpha; and 4, Labyrinthodonta.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

Indeed, of all classes of vertebrate animals, this aquatic class (Batrachia) has the least to do with the ocean, for many birds, and a still greater number of Mammals (e.g. the whales and porpoises), are constant inhabitants of salt water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

The third order of the class Batrachia is made up of a few creatures the distribution of which is limited to the warmer regions of the earth, where one of the genera (Coecilia) comprising the group is distributed over both hemispheres, being found in India, Africa, and South America.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

When, however, amongst Batrachia, we go outside that order to which the Frog belongs, we find in his class no creatures whatever which present anything, like such an approximation to any members of the Frog's order as is presented by the mammals above referred to certain members of man's order.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

Back cover art Batrachia, by Ernst Haeckel, plate 68 from his 1904 book Kunstformen der Natur, modified by James Champagne.    From Wordnik.com.  [DC's] Reference

Thus we shall become acquainted with the relations existing first between the Frog and other members of its order; secondly, between the members of its order (Anoura) and its class fellows -- i.e. other Batrachians; thirdly, we shall comprehend the degree of relationship existing between the Batrachia and the other classes of the Vertebrate sub-kingdom; and fourthly, we shall come to recognise certain singular resemblances which exist between the various groups of Batrachians (the Frog's order of course forming one), and some of the orders into which other vertebrate classes -- especially the class of Reptiles -- have been divided.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

ARTICLE V. Supplement to the Extinct Batrachia and Reptilia of North America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

"hyporhinal" or palato-nasal division) and the ophthalmic (to have been termed the "orbitonasal" (A term already applied by him in 1875 to the corresponding nerve in the Batrachia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference

Batrachia \.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference

Axolotl; Batrachia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

37 Batrachia (frogs, &c.).    From Wordnik.com.  [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference

Batrachia, 342.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work] Reference

Batrachia, 318.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon] Reference

The Vertebrata are divided into five great Classes: -- (I.), Mammalia (Man and Beasts); (II.), Aves (Birds); (III.), Reptilia (Reptiles, i.e. Crocodiles, Lizards, Serpents, and Tortoises); (IV.), Batrachia (Amphibians, i.e. Frogs, Toads, Efts, &c.); and (V.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference