G. GENERAL NATURAL HISTORY AND ZOOLOGY. 239 



expressed in a graphic manner, like the genealogical trees 

 which are employed to represent the lineage of human fami- 

 lies, and which are now considerably used by naturalists. 

 Such a mode of representation, it may be remarked, is equally 

 useful in conveying an idea of relations of various forms for 

 those who disbelieve in evolution as for those who accept 

 that doctrine, but for the latter they serve also as true gen- 

 ealogical tables. "YVe reproduce the table referred to as an 

 example : 



APES IN THIBET. 



Apes and parrots are generally considered as belonging 

 exclusively to the tropical zone. Dr. Hensel, however, has 

 observed that in the most southern part of Brazil, with a 

 climate similar to that of Southern Europe, several species 

 of monkeys exist. Abbe David has lately discovered two 

 more of these extra-tropical species, a short-tailed macacus 

 (Macacus tibetanus) and Semnopithecus roxellana. They 

 were found in the almost inaccessible forests of Eastern Thi- 

 bet. 3 (7, April 1, 18V2, 336. 



FOSSIL MONKEY FROM ITALY. 



Professor Gervais, in a communication to the Academy of 

 Sciences of Paris upon a fossil monkey lately discovered upon 

 Monte Bamboli, near Leghorn, in Italy, remarks that the total 



