New-York tribune., 1867-02-27
- ,h,roh ,oav h. brought IN joxtaposltion sue
the thlnD In"y II ~ fhs fngers, wlhle That

~ "a M ygt Ia tho same direction, and the large toe
anHot be- brought in %lo siion nom ct ~ & extremity
Of then folr lnbs quadrupeds il @ @anli for All II
nave hands at the end Of thcir hind in"s aS
well a. tGeir fore limbs But man hs pi ,ro,uineut
gT 2i eSSs MSch may hSs be asne agma
and the characteristic Iealuies u odlaeatons in this
reslcct among the monkeys, inasmnen no, IL can II
some in which the thamo 70 70 snUrt snUrttapnsition with II
not he readily brought ih J1hNnd of man n
the other fingers as III he no % tu1b is quite n
that fOnr fingers only orc % co
the thumb is almost entirely wanting. 49,, The fer1nj- II
of thc last iont Of finger In The leriect % %
The last Joint Of every finger mas at i, forspd aud II
mo 1,,sr mart of The JOINT not eXendS oI i,h % ~"
moi bending over last lont This Is thc J a. N tp s lis
the nails Of our hand ana ~ Is tG s Ue Which have an IN
perfcct hand we find that perhaps the tnp anu nan
pr d Two ar three fingers may have perfect haiii
or W. w. 0tbcTs NAV have curved nails bending beyond
She termination of the finger lhat s IN orcr II
even among some of the monkeys; and we nay ha.e % even
,,pvs i'm which tie thumb alone and the fliSt llnstr
have real flat nail and the other nieetS ] nay cair
ep"ng The monkeys have great variety as 20 & ~
same Of them ae not onse han @ our Su even Of man
aud there are all possible intermediate dimensions eAsC
4f1sa ard ia C4atrsa t,nd south America; Nut i'm ecn
Of thes parts o; o. world they psosfmd d sEe TeSld
that is those insfbitmg the tropical parts OF
Africa ans Asia, all renaThaoe isH inS ne & gdta'e ave-
NaruraSS have in the habit of measuring wIai Is
c3y led tho facial augthat IS She angle wrn % one % ne
IN yetHn @ line rassing aoalg the base of the skull H.
intellectual men that angle is realiy fat ~ t ' S
ne ue ents God that well tat III hvr s'htus
when they wanted TO exhibit an inehect9al man a1
prominently than usual, thpye Xaggcrafed the ,
nf tst line sm IN their Jupiter whe was the rcpcs ~
tatou Of cTesit'vC power, they gave spfonfth. " ~
forcEead whclcyersteppod5 5he righ angle - thit te
forol,cad u prominent over the ihrt' nav We 80
\ wel understood tho chaljftellslV t IeHl"'t mo
me N TEs csn@ct lie monkcysof the old WoE'l al-
Isach than other monkeys anu Iie Ao ~,
\ chmpan8ce and the Young oranS Oang he
"a Id far more than the adult monkey approaches ,ne
~ ult ma Itis curtens fact tha ID ,%ii t s tampei
xbcn the characteristic features are not ytI stiP'u
rh ali fher rgdity upon animals which are tioseg re-
rhun in TheT adult stage Ana we iu nn" ~ rr" o} the
hereafter resemblance between lne youuhE - ot
higher ma keys and the children of men, tnah notWcGn
4 tbe admits themselves Another feature nf the nonhe!e
of the odd World COnSisie in the constitution o tho
t ISut tbromrh all higher types OF the animal world
il, man and In monkeys find that the most charhctcl
these two great groups marked by Striking uIt'cs
I'm the form of the nose inc whl'e ,i hsih s @ & m tt
t6e oint of the the most prominent pai o ne I'e
9'Ilr ICES ~ men have on the contrary, flattencd
nose and the nostrlsopcung sdcwiSe 50 tha the wlIn
of the nosril is from within outward NoW s'igaa r
az the old World have nOstrls, aud the
uos1rs opening. in the white man. from io warn pCh
war and the partition which divides the nosrls very
n nar,eW Then again IL is among the monkeys ol the
old world that We find the largest n~nnDer ~ W nus ,
which are destitute m the tail Neither heorans onianS
nor chmpanzee, gorilla, nor maGaque %l 5d S"iin
Africa have any csudal appcndage Ana upon lhr 0uhu
Islands and upon the pelnsuaI Ul Mah,ca M an = %
IaOe tribe Ofuonkcys with exceedingly long arms ll ol
wbich destitute of tails And among the arg % ks
of monkeys Of Africa, as the baDoon We llnu ] soL.
.ga specie om5 m World Spy that aI"0Rs We m find i those
which have long tail as'the monkeys 3I Alcs gT 81
crliy have Then II pass from the Old World 10 me
Ne World find that the monkeys not only are gener
ally smaller generally prolonged shout hut
their facial angle j. less than that 0 the mOnkys W @
the partition between the nosrils remarkably
broad so that the nossIils open III - measure
| sIdevise And among them we find large mum,
her of kinds which lhave remarkably long tallS ana
| some of them have tail which terminates with nak'I
limb for these monkeys have much deNteTty III !he
use Of the tail that they can seize win as me Gfe" %
as they can seize objects with their hands. Ana ul
inorStys with such pirhensic tail peculiar To south
America Not one the old World has that peculiarly
and Nhere are even those which have a prohenfle
tail IN which the tail is covered with hair al over Ana
then there area certain namberoi the monkeys Z" SCUM
America which have somewhat less tail bn nclt - % no.
the whole continent Of America wich ls,n,cS ,
destitute Of the cauda appendage 80 we % nav W. MA I
the monkeys the New World, the former of which, on
the peculiarly Of the form oftheir nose have
ne iI " % W ' ,ie ~ ,nnnteys which L Nc
s. special character The lstle squirrelmonkcys which
IN uhbit several tropical parts of south America the
te Valley Of the AMAZON and the northern parts Of Brazil
NJ each differ from all other monkeys in having their grind
ld ing teeth provided with numerous prongs, and their
M hands small and imperfect, more like paw,
We different from the hands Of any other monkeys,
n and yet the possibility Of opposing the thumb 10 the other
I fingers shows them To be monkeys also Another differ
which have noticed between the monkeys of the
h Old World and those Of tire New World consists IN the
dcltation Nan mas IVe grinders above ana DtIoW eht
al left making 20nDdiug teeth, and 50 nave al thc
monkeys Of the Old World but the monkeys ol the New
= World have one i0olh more on each slds' aho't
q and below, the number OF Their grinders beng 2',
y These little squirrel monkeys again have only twenty,
five on each side And now the fourth group 0l money >
known under the name Of lemIS or maRs lnhab Mad
l. genuine maxi few somewhat allied 10 The makls
found the opposite shores Of Africa What distu-
of their head which is potuded like fox and they
also occasionally called fox monkeys" that
They have pointed snOut, more carniycrOus than
! nuner0usly Inovided with claws than with fiat nails
!
characterized ly pecuiartes OF structure easily
nzed and uEnlstakable- the monkeys which re
semble the squirrels which nhdbit tropical SOul
America the monkeys with broad nOstrils, winch in
the monkeys Of the Old World which are found In Ats1c
and in Asia within the tropics. but not in Madagascar
nor in Australia II Is curious that here tropical region
in which palm trees which the principal abode Of
monkeys abound, as Australia. should ne destitute
of monkeys, when ON some Of the adjoin
ing islands monkeys are not only common,
but the highest kinds OF monkeys fonnd there
This shows IN my estimation one thing, that all the dii
feTenceS which exist among animals cannot be ascribed
mates do not necessarily produce animals which are akin
for there in australia which exhibits all tho peculiar
zone, We have neither monkeys nor carniycrous ami
mails, nor ruminants, nor pachydci1ns-thcre are
neither deer, eks antclOpes elephants nor
rhnOcrOses nor Appropriateness nor any of those large
animals which every ywhcre else nhabt tropical climates,
giraifcs camels there any OF the
caInverous tribe bears, weascs foxes, dog,
Of that kind but the whole Of the cont,
nent is peopied by quadupids of peculiar kind, the
marSuials or Kangaroo family AL Of winch remark
able for the popularity OF having, like our opossum,
WCh Is one uI thal ldnlN ana the only genus Of that
family found this continent, under the abdomen
pouch ia which the young, which born in a very i'm
mature condition. transferred and where they
man until they have reached greater progress in their
development. Now that group Of marSufals. as they
called, IS the peculiar group Of quadrupcds-Of Aus
tIala, and in their various forms trey ape al the other
families which common IN other parts of the
world There some which recall the monkeys though
they have not the characteristics OF the monkeys
others Wldch recall the carnivcFOus am
nalS, though thcY have not the Characteristic
features of the cainiverOus; end Others which
recall in the InmlnaHts, though they are
| loL nmnamta prnnerlv sncAkmg u would leAd