SOME QUEER-NOSED MONKEYS 



Of all the features of the human countenance none seems 

 more prone to exhibit marked variations in size and shape 

 than the nose. A broad and flattened nose, is, for instance, 

 characteristic of negroes and Australian natives, whereas 

 the classic or Grecian nose is found only among the highest 

 types of the Caucasian races of Europe. But while the 

 nasal organs of the lower races of mankind differ in general 

 from those of the higher peoples of Western Europe, yet 

 it is among the latter that perhaps the greatest amount 

 of variation in this respect may be noticed. And although 

 even among these mixed Western nations a considerable 

 amount of such nasal variability is evidently hereditary 

 and distinctive of particular families or races, yet there 

 are many instances in which it appears largely individual, 

 although it may, of course, be due to reversion. Be this 

 as it may, it will suffice for our present purpose to note 

 that among European races a distinctly " snub-nosed," or 

 " tip-tilted," type is not uncommon on the one extreme, 

 while at the other we have what is commonly called the 

 " long-nosed " type ; the latter being broadly distinguished 

 from the arched Roman, or aquiline, nose. 



Now, it is a remarkable fact in natural history that 

 whereas the great majority of the monkeys and apes of 

 the Old World have noses of an ordinary pattern — that is 

 to say, not very far removed from the type characterising 



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