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»lich werden, so muss entweder eine allmahliche Reduktion 

 »der Nase geziichtet werden, oder die Art muss aussterben". 

 I throughout agree with Prof. Wiedersheim where he for- 

 mulates his opinion as follows: »kurz, wie man sich auch 

 » wenden und drehen mag: eine befriedigende Lösung der 

 »Frage ist vorderhand nicht möglich und wird auch so 

 » lange nicht zu erwarten sein, bis es nicht gelungen ist, 

 »in die biologischen Verhaltnisse des in der Freiheit lebenden 

 »Thieres einen klareren Einblick zu gewinnen". 



In consulting what different writers said about the 

 Proboscis-Monkey I often meet with expressions for the 

 long pendulous nose like grotesque^ hideous and the like. 

 It is unwise for scientific men to use such words, as we 

 never should forget our restricted view ; such expressions 

 are good for hysterical persons and for »profanum vulgus", 

 which also call Reptiles and Spiders hideous and ugly. To 

 the lover of nature and to every man of science all ani- 

 mals are beauties in their kind and wonders in itself. A 

 Proboscis-Monkey without nose or with a small one will 

 be judged »grotesque" among the ladies of that monkeys- 

 society, as sure as our ladies dislike and call «grotesque" 

 a nose as Cyrano de Bergerac or Scipio (Nasica) had, in both 

 cases abnormities or monsters. 



As the Leyden Museum possesses a splendid series and 

 bony parts of the Proboscis-Monkey I can give here some 

 fine photo's ; they represent the following individuals (al- 

 cohol-specimens) : 



plate 1, fig. 1, foetus, 8 Cm. N°. k of the «Catalogue 8ystématique". 



plate 2, fig. 1, » » » » » » 



plate 1, fig. 2, » 19 » N°. j » 



plate 2, fig. 2, » » » » » » 



plate 1, fig. 3, adult male, received in 1892, not in the Catalogue, 



plate 2, fig. 3, » » » » » » » » » 



plate 3, fig. 1, very young, N°. j of the «Catalogue ostéologique". 



plate 4, fig. 1, » » » » » » » » 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. XXIII. 



