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which IS represented by tlie sub-order of the Narrow-nosed, 

 or Eastern Apes. Finally, the question which now re- 

 mains to be answered is — what position in this sub-order 

 must be assioned to Man, and whether other inferences as 

 to the structure of our immediate ancestors may be drawn 

 fiom this position. The comprehensive and acute researches 

 into the Comparative Anatomy of Man and the various 

 CatarhinaB, which Huxley has recorded in his work on the 

 " Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature," are of the greatest 

 value in furnishing the answer to these important questions. 

 The inevitable conclusion is, that the difference between 

 Man and the highest Narrow-nosed Apes (the Gorilla, Chim- 

 panzee, Orang) is slighter in every respect than the corre- 

 sponding ditierences between the highest and the lowest 

 Catarhines (the Sea-cat, Macaque, Baboon). Even within 

 the small group of the Tail-less man-like Apes (AntJtro- 

 poides) the several genera do not differ less from each other 

 than they do from Men. This is seen by a glance at the 

 skeletons represented here, as arranged by Huxley (Figs. 

 204-208). If the skull, or the vertebral column, together 

 with the rib-system, or the anterior or posterior members, 

 are compared ; or if the comparison is extended to the 

 muscular system, the circulatory system, the brain, etc., 

 a candid and unprejudiced examination always results in 

 the same conclusion, that Man does not difier more from 

 the higher Catarhines than the extreme forms of the latter 

 (for example, the Gorilla and Baboon) differ from each 

 other. We can, therefore, complete the important propo- 

 sition already quoted from Huxley : We may take what- 

 ever' system of organs we will, — the comparison of their 

 modifications within the ranks of the Catarhinse leads ua 



