ii MAN ONE OF THE PRIMATES. 145 



structural differences between Man and the Man- 

 like apes certainly justify our regarding him as 

 constituting a family apart from them; though, 

 inasmuch as he differs less from them than they 

 do from other families of the same order, there 

 can be no justification for placing him in a dis- 

 tinct order. 



And thus the sagacious foresight of the great 

 lawgiver of systematic zoology, Linnaeus, becomes 

 justified, and a century of anatomical research 

 brings us back to his conclusion, that man is a 

 member of the same order (for which the Linnsean 

 term Primates ought to be retained) as the Apes 

 and Lemurs. This order is now divisible into seven 

 families, of about equal systematic value: the 

 first, the Anthropini, contains Man alone; the 

 second, the Catarhini, embraces the old world 

 apes; the third, the Platyrhini, all new world 

 apes, except the Marmosets; the fourth, the 

 Arctopithecini, contains the Marmosets; the 

 fifth, the Lemurini, the Lemurs — from which 

 Cheiromys should probably be excluded to form a 

 sixth distinct family, the Cheiromyini; while the 

 seventh, the Galeopithecini, contains only the 

 flying Lemur Galeopithecus, — a strange form which 

 almost touches on the Bats, as the Cheiromys puts 

 on a Eodent clothing, and the Lemurs simulate 

 Insectivora. 



Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with 

 so extraordinary a series of gradations as this — 

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